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单词 piffling
例句 piffling
The piffling toad steps away from her and says, “Non capisco! Ha!” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z
There is even a tiny one – a piffling four million times as massive as the Sun – at the heart of the Milky Way, the galaxy we call home. Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes - review 2012-12-12T07:00:00Z
This may seem like a piffling side project to some. At Facebook, Creating Empathy Among Cyberbullying 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z
In 2012, it dismissed claims that the comet Elenin was on its way to destroy mankind, calling it a “trail of piffling particles”. Nasa says the world is not going to end in September 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z
Set against the possible end of a 307-year union, that might seem a piffling difference. Rise of the ayes 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z
Four draws and eight defeats represent a piffling return from lavish summer investment in transfer fees and wages. Lost spark: why Mark Hughes should never have walked out on Fulham 2012-11-23T16:44:42Z
They want £595 to watch the beach volleyball, though the "canoe sprint" is a piffling £295 – for an event you might not watch if it were taking place in your park boating lake. Simon Hoggart's week: An old mugging scam through the wonder of Wi-Fi 2012-06-29T22:03:01Z
British MPs sold their reputations for a piffling return—one MP submitted a claim for a hot drink he had bought in the House of Commons tearoom. How to Act Like a Psychopath without Really Trying [Excerpt] 2011-12-09T18:45:00.223Z
The US Reserve's operating balance was more than 40 times greater than some piffling private company. Boot up: LulzSec hacker named, Foxconn 'to replace workers with robots', and more 2011-08-01T07:30:02Z
The properties of Washington, DC, are valued at a piffling $232 billion. China's foreign reserves: Who wants to be a triple trillionaire? 2011-04-14T08:04:51Z
Feeling, then, as I do, that there is no such poignant ordeal possible to man as sitting through a tight Harvard-Yale game, any screen story of football seems not only piffling but sacrilegious. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z
To hell with such piffling concerns as global supply, we should live fast and die faster. UK must follow Spain down the road to lower speed limits 2011-03-09T16:27:02Z
I feel this is going to be better than those piffling little mine-laying trips, and though we shall be away ten days, it will qualify me for four days' leave in Belgium. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z
To my pleadings that I was lonely—would she not dine with me at my home?—she responded with ever-ready but piffling excuses and subterfuges. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z
This stuff may seem piffling, but it all added to the feel of a Proper World Cup. On Second Thoughts: Italia 90 2010-10-14T10:34:00Z
He found those with a lower base level of the hormone tended to prefer immediate payment, even when the sum in question was piffling compared with the promised future compensation. The biology of business: Homo administrans 2010-09-23T10:46:00Z
The average odds of the last 10 Lincoln winners is a piffling 11-1 and I defy anyone to get rich at that rate. Claims Five: The trickiest handicaps 2010-06-25T12:35:00Z
The new star's salary – piffling, by today's standards – was twice the previous highest paid to an African footballer. From Africa to Portugal to immortality 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z
Later on he heard the poet call Spots 'a piffling Philistine,' but he did not know what it meant and was ashamed to ask. Years of Plenty
A lot of piffling rubbish—knockings, rappings, and contemptible nonsense of that sort—but of serious truth, of what we want to know, not one little bit. Tales of South Africa
I'm sick of lying and pretending, sick of common little piffling notions of what you consider right and wrong. The "Genius"
He went over to Santa Fe to see the governor–a piffling carpet-bagger. The Coming of the Law
Why don't you cut out all this piffling holy talk and go in for something you can do? The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country
Picked up Wallace Kent when he was a piffling, faded juvenile, and taught him to be a good elderly support worth his hundred to any director. Blue-grass and Broadway
And if it weren't for your advice, and Molly Winston's conviction that Pat would stick to C. if he were ruined, I shouldn't be playing about with any such piffling policy as I've just outlined. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America
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? The Rough Road
I dare say, too, I have hurt Duke’s pride by trying to give him a reason for your indifferent attitude, yet never having courage for the real, piffling explanation. Ladies-In-Waiting
The deadly seriousness of their piffling, pedantic talk about fine-spun scholastic points that were not interesting nor useful a thousand years ago, and much less now that they are absolutely dead. The Desert Fiddler
He might as well have sat by his fire and read a piffling novel. Black Oxen
She disliked the round vowels formed with such care that they looked piffling, and the elaborately shaded consonants. The Man from the Bitter Roots
She paused and, in a different tone, went on: “Don’t you think it’s rather rotten to have this piffling argument when I’ve come all this long way to see you?” The Rough Road
I want to get to work on my own, and not to sit talk, talk, talking over every miserable, piffling little detail. The Lady of the Basement Flat
Don't be an old maid, Ern, with your piffling German conscientiousness. The Forbidden Trail
Maybe it's only a piffling pocket, and we'll get souped for our pains. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
Most of it was too piffling and small. The Masques of Ottawa
Earthly marriages are piffling in comparison with that ceremony. The Skylark of Space
This thing of piffling and monkeying around here's pulling my cork, and for the ten thousand four hundred and sixty seventh time I say let's prowl and prowl now! Spacehounds of IPC
Each Committee held numerous Meetings, at the Call of the Chairman, and discussed the impeding Festivities with that solemn regard for piffling Detail which marked the Peace Conference at The Hague. Knocking the Neighbors
I had a friend in college who used to indulge in the same sort of piffling, but that my uncle's widow and her elderly companion should delight in such absurdities bewildered me. Lady Larkspur
"You heard what I said about piffling human beings?" she asked him sweetly. The Lookout Man
What museum in its senses would accept such piffling stuff with any stipulations attached? The Mating of Lydia
Probably he did not want Beethoven to waste his time on piffling schoolboy exercises. Haydn
Well; first, I knew my daughter couldn't be the piffling lunatic who does your war cookery articles. The Title A Comedy in Three Acts
In my catering I continued to steer a middle course between the British school of plain roast and boiled and a too often piffling French complexity, seeking to retain the desirable features of each. Ruggles of Red Gap
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! The Lookout Man
Seems a piffling little sheet," he observed, "to be read in about eight seconds by any one not interested in advertisements. The Gray Dawn
Later on we can report what we have done to the British government, and ask for condonation under the circumstances or pay whatever piffling fine they care to impose for the sake of appearances. The Ivory Trail
Second, I asked myself: What reason has she for pretending to be that piffling lunatic? The Title A Comedy in Three Acts
In the fall I am going to ask you to lend a hand in support of my conservation bills, which look like piffling affairs now in contrast with the big events of the day. Letters of Franklin K. Lane
Probably the relief from the long tension of the buffalo hunt had something to do with my general piffling inefficiency. The Land of Footprints
I'm merely telling you what will happen if father accepts that piffling baronetcy. The Title A Comedy in Three Acts
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