Crossword clues for piffling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Piffle \Pif"fle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Piffled; p. pr. & vb. n. Piffling.] To be sequeamish or delicate; hence, to act or talk triflingly or ineffectively; to twaddle; piddle. [Dial. or Slang]
Wiktionary
unimportant v
(present participle of piffle English)
WordNet
adj. (informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, petty, picayune, trivial]
Usage examples of "piffling".
When he stepped out into the heat again, the problems of a sickly car seemed piffling, and he set to solving them with a will.
So clever, my child, but he doesn't guess why that girl is forever ill with her piffling disorders.
From past experience, both women knew that any procedures involving the issuing or examination of documents usually took hours, sometimes the better part of a day - no matter how piffling the transaction might be.
But his breath—which he'd used to shatter the wall between Dominions—was so piffling now it went unfelt, and the fingers were withdrawn by the hand of Pie's consoler, who then reached down and drew the shroud back over Gentle's face.
But for the piffling form of it, I’d face them singlehanded, with no knights at my back, no father to serve as my front and weary me with counsel.