piffling BrE informal

Above all, this is not some piffling question of aesthetics or lifestyle.

I mean really useful, not just waiting about for the next piffling stage part.'

Is it possible to imagine a more piffling, derisory sum?

Stern made a piffling sound with her lips.

You are warned that officers actually issue tickets for jaywalking, but some piffling fine is not what stops me.

"You have a piffling recall of the past," he said; "I have too much.

And so Flagg was not concerned about the piffling matter of the dollhouse.

They told him what they knew, which was, when they came to summarize it, a piffling amount.

I think we puny piffling colonials taught him a few things about war.)

That was the sort of thing that might offend Richie, his taking up such piffling pastimes.

"Such a piffling prisoner" I murmured.

Can it be that because of this piffling prejudice, you refuse to rally round the young master in his hour of peril?"

"Elements forbid we should start some piffling quarrel about a matter of labeling," Gurrhim said, and coughed.

This raises the question: for such a piffling amount, wouldn't the Chancellor have been better off salami-slicing other elements of his enormous outlay?

I know many of you - especially the non-folkies (ie, the majority) - will regard it as a piffling matter.

"Jill, will you please explain why they have to waste as big a man as Kinnison on such a piffling job as president?

The Today programme said that it currently costs a piffling 10M p.a. to maintain the forests.

And, as you will see, it was to the everlasting honor of Ronald Ross that he was exalted by this seemingly so piffling experiment.

The most famous image is that of a dishevelled Keane, his head swathed in a bloody bandage after some piffling skirmish with the oppostion.

These were available for a small payment on a daily basis, so a rapid reader like me could take out a new book every day for a piffling amount.

If he approached Menolly or Sebell about such a piffling problem, they might decide he wasn't the right lad for their needs.

But for the piffling form of it, I'd face them singlehanded, with no knights at my back, no father to serve as my front and weary me with counsel.

Is it possible, for example, that he would sell the kids to a paedophile ring - for a piffling amount of money - just because it would really upset me?

It is hilarious because of the disproportion: such elegant tools put to such a piffling task, so much ceremony applied to preparing one tiny pea for the digestive tract.

List in hand, I began to scout the land and found, like Goldilocks, that most candidates were either too big or too piffling, too posh or too drear.