piffling

Well; first, I knew my daughter couldn't be the piffling lunatic who does your war cookery articles.
The Title|Arnold Bennett
"I don't think we ought to ask a great and busy lawyer to accommodate himself to our piffling social plans," replied Mrs. Joyce.
Victor Ollnee's Discipline|Hamlin Garland
She disliked the round vowels formed with such care that they looked piffling, and the elaborately shaded consonants.
The Man from the Bitter Roots|Caroline Lockhart
Why don't you cut out all this piffling holy talk and go in for something you can do?
The Preacher of Cedar Mountain|Ernest Thompson Seton

I'm sick of lying and pretending, sick of common little piffling notions of what you consider right and wrong.
The "Genius"|Theodore Dreiser

British Dictionary definitions for piffling

piffling

/ (ˈpɪflɪŋ) /

adjective

worthless, trivial

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