Translations for „piffling“ in the English » German Dictionary

pif·fling [ˈpɪfl̩ɪŋ] ADJ dated inf

piffling

lächerlich

pif·fle [ˈpɪfl̩] N no pl dated inf

piffle

Quatsch m inf

to talk a lot of piffle

ziemlichen Blödsinn verzapfen inf

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English

Some of the payments were piffling.

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If that sounds piffling, it isn't.

www.independent.ie

So top speed is down to a piffling 170mph.

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Voyager 1 is the fastest manmade thing ever, but 17 kilometres per second is a piffling fraction of the speed of light.

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These are all piffling, irrelevant topics for consideration.

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What torment it must have been to sit hour after hour while hundreds of small children poured out their piffling misdemeanours.

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Yet it rates only a parish council, its judgments merely advisory on the most piffling details.

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It could be quite piffling, maybe 1% of their stock exchange holdings.

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Subtract that insane single bottle cost and you are left with a piffling tab of $56,679.74.

www.irishcentral.com

Like they think they can be re-born, and they reckon they can trade in their piffling little "good deeds".

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