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Piffling   Listen
verb
Piffle  v. i.  (past & past part. piffled; pres. part. piffling)  
1.
To be sequeamish or delicate; hence, to act or talk triflingly or ineffectively; to talk nonsense or about trivial matters; to twaddle; piddle. (Dial. or Slang)
Synonyms: chatter, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble.
2.
To act in a trivial or ineffective way.





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"Piffling" Quotes from Famous Books



... baying gets on your nerves, just send for me." He went down the stairs and stepped into the boat. "Remember, Holcombe," he called, "every well-constituted murder has two things: a motive and a corpse. You haven't either, only a mass of piffling details—" ...
— The Case of Jennie Brice • Mary Roberts Rinehart


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