Adjective : piffling efforts. From Dictionary.com.
Counterfeit goods in South Africa account for a "piffling" amount compared to other countries internationally, SA Revenue. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
English magazines were too piffling, too imbecile. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
Additional ‘efficiency savings’ were piffling in scale. From Wordnik.com. [Brown’s toxic farewell] Reference
But you are now, so stop piffling on, for Heaven's sake. ndm. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
This was no piffling little Gizeh pyramid, no simple tomb for a king. From Wordnik.com. [The Sky Is Falling] Reference
It only managed a piffling, 0.1% increase in the last quarter of the old year. From Wordnik.com. [Fiscal Collapse: A Field Guide for Stockholders] Reference
Lawyers prefer the current system of everyone can sue for any piffling reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » If a Tree Falls in the Suburbs, Who Is Liable?] Reference
"What comes across our borders and into our country is a piffling amount," Gordhan said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
She nodded, wishing that it was something piffling like a keelhaul drop that had her jittery. From Wordnik.com. [Behemoth] Reference
Neil has gone to his all-day cricket thingy again today, so I am piffling about not doing much. From Wordnik.com. [sheepdip Diary Entry] Reference
It sounds like such a piffling thing but I lived alone and for two weeks was too ill to leave the flat. From Wordnik.com. [My sister, there for the long haul] Reference
We now prosecute drug dealers for a piffling few kilos of heroin, yet we were dealing it by the shipload. From Wordnik.com. [How to talk right] Reference
An idea that The Sun promote to the top of the pile of otherwise rather piffling and imprecise policy proposals. From Wordnik.com. [Super Soaraway Sun: Repeats Clown Johnson's Guff] Reference
This power is mine; I'm taking it, and a piffling thing like the life of a man like you will not stand in my way. From Wordnik.com. ["Power" by Harl Vincent, part 5] Reference
I'm sorry, that line was almost drowned out by reporters pestering candidates about their piffling flag lapel pins. From Wordnik.com. [Rumor: Matthew McConaughey Possibly Captain America - Blasphemy! « FirstShowing.net] Reference
Another thing it does is that is eases the minds of those who may just worry about piffling matter like human rights. From Wordnik.com. [Congratulations ...] Reference
Another thing it does is that is eases the minds of those who may just worry about piffling matter like human rights. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-08-01] Reference
I scoff at their 2,000 books, Litlove, and I look forwarding to your singlehandedly dismantling this piffling prediction. From Wordnik.com. [Life Begins At 40 « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
If he approached Menolly or Sebell about such a piffling problem, they might decide he wasn't the right lad for their needs. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon Drums]
The catastrophe caused people to recall the war as piffling and inconsequential by comparison, and renewed their sense of life. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
Let me denounce this piffling, trifling, self-satisfied world; these horse-hair seats; these coloured photographs of piers and parades. From Wordnik.com. [The Waves] Reference
Last year has him 26th with a piffling nine PL goals. From Wordnik.com. [TEAMtalk Football News] Reference
"Lost in Translation," a film that was piffling at best. From Wordnik.com. [ Politics]
"If I should break through that piffling bodyguard now --". From Wordnik.com. [Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage] Reference
Earthly marriages are piffling in comparison with that ceremony. From Wordnik.com. [The Skylark of Space] Reference
He might as well have sat by his fire and read a piffling novel. From Wordnik.com. [Black Oxen] Reference
Roddick has won a piffling two points against serve in this set. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference
Symes curbed his irritation at the piffling objections of the Fly-trap. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Doc] Reference
Maybe it's only a piffling pocket, and we'll get souped for our pains. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
"You heard what I said about piffling human beings?" she asked him sweetly. From Wordnik.com. [The Lookout Man] Reference
It's the highest peak on the continent of mainland Australia, at a piffling 2,228m. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
But la, there, what wots your trickling whey of that coal-piffling Prince of Flies!. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance] Reference
Probably he did not want Beethoven to waste his time on piffling schoolboy exercises. From Wordnik.com. [Haydn] Reference
Instead, you're much coarser -- except about piffling, piddling, paltry non-essentials. From Wordnik.com. [The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel] Reference
Is it because this piffling amount of €315 is more easily understood by the average voter?. From Wordnik.com. [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
But compared to Dave, Tom's problems are too piffling to warrant even a nanosecond of concern. From Wordnik.com. [mirror.co.uk - Home] Reference
See, we here in sinful, hellhole Sodom-iffic San Francisco see such piffling outcry, and laugh. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Most people would be willing to put these piffling amounts in a publicly-placed collection box. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
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