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Significados de piffling em inglês

(Informal) small and of little importance.

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Uso de piffling em inglês
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Inland & Armco, two relatively piffling corporations had not yet boosted prices.
The new yorker
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I've got out of dead-and-alive Wolvercote at last-stupidCouncillors and piffling necromancers!
Charmed Life
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The Taoiseach and Mr Molloy see it as a piffling matter.
The Irish Times
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Don't be an old maid, Ern, with your piffling German conscientiousness.
The Forbidden Trail
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The poor Central Bank of Ireland only holds a piffling $90 million.
The Irish Times
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Probably he did not want Beethoven to waste his time on piffling schoolboy exercises.
Haydn
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A piffling, procedural detail in the mother of parliaments, obviously.
The Guardian
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Seldom have these old eyes seen a more piffling stick of type... View Article
The new yorker
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I'm afraid you'll wind up like one of these bondholders of Gretzingers, just piffling.
The Iron Furrow
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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,...
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Compared to the difficulties of modern romance, the problems of Romeo and Juliet were piffling.
Seize the night
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It's true that claimants are sanctioned for piffling reasons.
The Guardian
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Symes curbed his irritation at the piffling objections of the Fly-trap King and responded tolerantly.
The Lady Doc
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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
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You and your piffling post-grad IQ of, what, 125?
The genesis secret
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