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piffling

/pif-ling/US // ˈpɪf lɪŋ //UK // (ˈpɪflɪŋ) //

皮夫林,虔诚的,虔诚

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of little worth; trifling; piddling: piffling efforts.

Examples

  • Well; first, I knew my daughter couldn't be the piffling lunatic who does your war cookery articles.

  • "I don't think we ought to ask a great and busy lawyer to accommodate himself to our piffling social plans," replied Mrs. Joyce.

  • She disliked the round vowels formed with such care that they looked piffling, and the elaborately shaded consonants.

  • Why don't you cut out all this piffling holy talk and go in for something you can do?

  • I'm sick of lying and pretending, sick of common little piffling notions of what you consider right and wrong.