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Значения термина piffling на английском

(Informal) small and of little importance.

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Examples for "little"
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Europe is a different competition and little errors can change the game.
The Guardian
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The case poses little if any threat to human health, officials said.
Reuters
3
And some believe market actually picked up a little bit last year.
The Guardian
4
The group also had little time for talk of the euro crisis.
The Guardian
5
The government has so far given away little detail of its plans.
Reuters
1
Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett said the group were playing petty politics.
Radio NZ
2
Which was true, of course, and petty of me to bring up.
Man in the Middle
3
I don't have time to resolve these petty family squabbles right now.
Star trek: terok nor: dawn of the eagles
4
Oppression, daily petty harassment and humiliation are the breeding ground for violence.
The Irish Times
5
The provost, however, had never wasted his time with such petty artifice.
Inferno
1
Consumers are 'overwhelmed with relatively trivial choices' says a professor of psychology.
The Rational Optimist
2
Did he think her family morally trivial for keeping a clean house?
Kalooki Nights
3
Changes to the Constitution are not done for trivial or transient reasons.
The Irish Times
4
I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and inference.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
5
There's a tendency to attribute far too much importance to trivial developments.
The South African
1
Guess that means I can finally start fiddling with your financial records.
Ryan's place
2
I may have helped it freeze by fiddling with certain environmental controls.
Seveneves
3
He was fiddling with the carriage release, exasperated, tugging at the paper.
Small wars: a novel
4
But once you start fiddling with the facts, it's hard to stop.
The Guardian
5
Rupert bristled at the order, but he began fiddling with a console.
Heaven's Queen
1
Everything from diet to niggling little health problems could be causing problems.
Independent.ie
2
I need it ASAP. The U.S. case had left a niggling fear.
Damaged
3
Unfortunately, the beauty of the concept is marred by two niggling problems.
Wired
4
But no matter how much sense I made, the niggling had started.
The distant hours
5
Yet there was something niggling about Elder's demeanor, a small discordant something.
Secret of the seventh son
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He felt himself bound and pricked by a thousand delicate lilliputian bonds.
Eleanor
2
This is a pity, as their lilliputian self-assertion is most amusing.
Dogs and All about Them
3
In the middle of the lilliputian ranks the giant smoke-clouds leap like hellish gods.
Light
4
This kite system is like fitting a gigantic sail to a lilliputian boat, d'ye see?
The Giant of the North: Pokings Round the Pole
5
The lilliputian vehicles are ubiquitous in Japan - and they would be here, if Detroit had any sense.
Wired
1
That is not patriotism, but a picayune partisanship which I profoundly pity.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
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You kant show the poor man he's ever took a picayune from.
Snow-Bound at Eagle's
3
No, sir, it's hot your picayune drop o' spirits that's talkin'-it'sme.
Stories from Everybody's Magazine
4
He had no reason to think that Cissie cared a picayune about him.
Birthright: A Novel
5
Then tossing her a picayune, he said, take that, Aunt Dilsey.
Tempest and Sunshine
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Humanity was far too obsessed with numerous piddling things of no interest.
Hunters in the Dark
2
A piddling string of munition factories in New York and New Jersey.
The Shining
3
She was sitting at a table, piddling with a deck of cards.
Lonesome dove
4
All they've got usually is piddling little Morris Eights or Austin Sevens.
The Complete Short Stories Vol. 1
5
You're highly unlikely to do time, especially given your piddling payouts.
Wired
1
She felt it was a footling question even as she asked it.
All Roads Lead to Calvary
2
I'm not such an ass as to fall off a footling balcony.
Jaffery
3
Despite Lhel's efforts, the second child came wrong way around, a footling breach.
The Bone Doll's Twin
4
For these two years, therefore, C na T has spent its time footling.
The Irish Times
5
Fidgeting, footling, while a companion looked on, and occasionally shifted position.
The Irish Times
Использование термина piffling на английском
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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
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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
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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
15
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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