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Meanings of piffling in inglés

(Informal) small and of little importance.

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Usage of piffling in inglés
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Inland & Armco, two relatively piffling corporations had not yet boosted prices.
The new yorker
2
I've got out of dead-and-alive Wolvercote at last-stupidCouncillors and piffling necromancers!
Charmed Life
3
The Taoiseach and Mr Molloy see it as a piffling matter.
The Irish Times
4
Don't be an old maid, Ern, with your piffling German conscientiousness.
The Forbidden Trail
5
The poor Central Bank of Ireland only holds a piffling $90 million.
The Irish Times
6
Probably he did not want Beethoven to waste his time on piffling schoolboy exercises.
Haydn
7
A piffling, procedural detail in the mother of parliaments, obviously.
The Guardian
8
Seldom have these old eyes seen a more piffling stick of type... View Article
The new yorker
9
I'm afraid you'll wind up like one of these bondholders of Gretzingers, just piffling.
The Iron Furrow
10
But la, there, what wots your trickling whey of that coal-piffling Prince of Flies!
Henry Brocken / His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange,...
11
Compared to the difficulties of modern romance, the problems of Romeo and Juliet were piffling.
Seize the night
12
It's true that claimants are sanctioned for piffling reasons.
The Guardian
13
Symes curbed his irritation at the piffling objections of the Fly-trap King and responded tolerantly.
The Lady Doc
14
Earthly marriages are piffling in comparison with that ceremony.
The Skylark of Space
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But upon mature reflection it proves the Communists to be a piffling sort of menace.
The new yorker
16
You and your piffling post-grad IQ of, what, 125?
The genesis secret
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