piffle
noun
nonsense, as trivial or senseless talk.
are piffling
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present progressiveof piffle.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Because markets for land are so ill-developed in Africa and governments so weak, rents are piffling: $2 per hectare per year in Ethiopia; $5 in Liberia.
From Economist ● May 5, 2011
Earthly marriages are piffling in comparison with that ceremony.
From The Skylark of Space by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
