"Piffle" is a word used to describe something that is silly, nonsense, or insignificant.
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«Although I hesitate to challenge such a learned member of the judiciary — and the former justice secretary is also highly experienced in such matters — I find both men guilty
of piffle in the first degree.
Almost everything he colluded with in the Cameron government was an error, while almost all he achieved was
piffling in comparison.
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But as a good first nations girl whose grandpa was born in a canoe, I
say piffle.
Now the broadcasters may have garbled the message, but this does sound like
complete piffle based on looking at a period too short for the trend to reach significance — and simply (like the AMO stuff?)
Claims to the contrary are
just piffle and demonstrate jealousy towards these brutal Uruguayan engineering masterpieces.
But a YouTube video made by the
channel Piffle does an excellent job of explaining what a GMO is, and breaking down the science behind it.
These are antiquated notions of how the world works,
piffling ideas the Yankees have no use for.
Eh gads, what
utter piffle, what a way to manipulate figures, tug at heartstrings and build an article around half truths and no truths.
Oh piffle Sunder it has been a hallmark of this administration to conduct supposedly independent enquiries that magically conclude that the government is right to do what it wanted to anyway.
He goes on to say the Apathy Party is winning elections; millions no longer vote and appear to have no trust in the political parties (that includes me, a former Tory voter) and it is those voters that Cameron should be attracting and not a
few piffling votes from the Lib / Dims.
Angel: Look, Boris, my old chumaroo, this is all a pyramid of
inverted piffle.
Like every
non-nutritious piffle hastily - consumed, the guilty reflection will come in the long hours after.
The main feature is such a
glittering piffle that a moment where a child accidentally caps himself with mommy's gun isn't remotely as funny as its placement and tenor might imply.
I can only imagine three audiences for Campus Man — those that collect every piece of
80s piffle purely for nostalgia, those that want to see homoerotic music montages featuring hunky men in swimsuits, or perhaps you're curious to see some early work by John Dye of «Touched by an Angel» or Kim Delaney (Mission to Mars, Body Parts) of «NYPD Blue».
You want it to be either hopelessly bad or a secret masterpiece, and all you get is generic all - star
period piffle shot all too obviously on a London soundstage» — NW
Lu Over the Wall Charming, if overlong,
piffle about a childlike mermaid who befriends a morose teenage boy in a rock band, and in the process threatens to ignite culture war between human and merfolk in a Japanese fishing village.
This flick about old spies is an
agreeable piffle, a fun action / comedy that's silly without being moronic.
But the comedian Natasha Leggero, playing a floozy on a surveillance stakeout, milks her moments for every comic - sexy second they're worth, turning, however briefly,
piffle into gold.
Overcrowded and tied by neither narrative nor vision, Masked and Anonymous is
masturbatory piffle of the first order — activist without cause and hoping to hit a few hot buttons by swinging wildly at the fences.
If you think I might be reading too much into this
childish piffle, consider that any film which casts Garry Marshall, of all people, as a weaselly Harlan Ellison (or, more accurately and «subtly,» a weaselly science - fiction writer named «Donald Harlan») obviously has something on its mind.
Yet it went ignored while Sly Stallone's
piffling King Lear act in the mediocre Creed is hailed like the second coming.
There's scarcely a ripple when a rock is thrown in the Hayes pond, and all the conversations about working too much and not gathering rosebuds while ye may amount to so
much piffle when everything turns out so well.
How is expanding socially divisive education going to lead to a «shared society» whatever that
piffle means.
The V6 was just
plain piffle and, while V8 - powered SS may have made the requisite vroom noises, it, too, largely failed to disguise its origins.
I would prefer the BMW too but its a
pretty piffling mpg differential for cars at this level surely?
And sad to say, the notion that there is a genuine, pure, sincere, and deep art that can be set in opposition to a compromised, mercenary, dishonest, and shallow one is
romantic piffle.
Jebus, not only is it not science, it's not anything; just a bunch feel -
good piffle that's so nebulous it would make even a PoMo Sociology professor blush.
«Al Gore has studied the ClimateGate emails with his typically rigorous eye and dismissed them as
mere piffle: Question: How damaging to your argument was the disclosure of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University?
lets do % steps of 30 years 50, 25, 12.5, 6.25, 3.125, in 150 years add em up 96.875 % gone in 150 years by that assumption alone Note
mans piffling contribution to turnover yearly is basically all gone in 5 years.
Thank you for drawing my attention to the work of Morner, which, given his experience, should perhaps be considered with care (all «dowsing» ad hominem
deemed piffle).
The inability to see Clinton's shopping list or what she thought of a political opponent is a
contrived piffle.
The Americans — a classless society, they like to claim, though that's another story — could care less *** about such
intangible piffle.
Although many snobbishly dismiss it
as piffle, few films have ever approached its level of creativity, wit, and manic energy; it easily remains one of the five funniest films ever made.
@ChrisBryantMP: As for the rumours that Boris would go for the very marginal seat of corby - an inverted pyramid
of piffle!
In 2010, it was
a piffling $ 2.3 billion.
I shall now write a poem crowning the kindest month; unlike Eliot's
piffle, mine will actually rhyme.