piffling
- v speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- v act in a trivial or ineffective way
- s (informal) small and of little importance
piffling efforts
- Back in the 1930s when Eleanor Roosevelt first went on the air, her high-pitched, uncertain voice "and the piffling quality of some of her remarks made a field day for mimics.
- But these are piffling objections.
- Nor was the Wirt testimony considered piffling by Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt.