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n. - Trivial nonsense v. - Act in a trivial or ineffective way; Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.

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  • He uses the word piffle but he doesn't sheet it home to a person, he refers to the statement itself, which is piffle, after all.
  • Don't want to pay actual hard earned money for that kind of piffle!
  • Evidence, consitutional safeguards, attorneys, that kind of piffle that Padilla trashed.
  • The dear lady who delights in "piffle," and to whom "pifflage" is the very breath of life, had also her niche in our affairs.
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