piffling

[ pif-ling ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

piffling

/ ˈpɪflɪŋ /

First recorded in 1890–95; piffle + -ing ²

Well; first, I knew my daughter couldn't be the piffling lunatic who does your war cookery articles.

"I don't think we ought to ask a great and busy lawyer to accommodate himself to our piffling social plans," replied Mrs. Joyce.

She disliked the round vowels formed with such care that they looked piffling, and the elaborately shaded consonants.

Why don't you cut out all this piffling holy talk and go in for something you can do?

I'm sick of lying and pretending, sick of common little piffling notions of what you consider right and wrong.

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