Second, I asked myself: What reason has she for pretending to be that piffling lunatic?
I'm merely telling you what will happen if father accepts that piffling baronetcy.
Well; first, I knew my daughter couldn't be the piffling lunatic who does your war cookery articles.
Compared with her calamities, half of which would have been the stock-in-trade of a Greek dramatist wherewith to wring tears from mankind for a couple of thousand years, what were his own piffling grievances?
Some of the piffling things I used to be interested in, I have forgotten all about.
He tells me to tell you this: The attitude of Mr. Stead and some of those people turned him aside; on one side there was too much credulity--on the other side too much piffling at trifles.
I'd rather be a tree and grow up here and swing my branches in the wind and then burn, than be a little petty, piffling human being--I would!
If you'd cut out all yourpiffling goody talk and give us life like that, you'd have all the town with you.
Why don't you cut out all this piffling holy talk and go in for something you can do?
He called it piffling slow work, but was nevertheless extremely industrious at it, although days and weeks and, as they suspected, months, passed before the hands of the two friends met in the center of the rock.
Piffling business, I call it, this interfering with private correspondence.
What I saw in Mathers I never could tell, but there was something about the piffling duffer that I liked.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piffling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: measly; niggling; petty; picayune; piddling; piffling; pimping; poky; punk; puny; tinhorn
