piffled

verb

past tense of piffle
as in gummed (up)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for piffled
  1. screwed up
  2. muddled
  3. blundered
  4. fouled up
  5. boggled
  6. murdered
  7. botched
  8. impaired
Verb
  • That doesn’t mean the Yankees screwed up in their process by trading for Stanton.
    — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Every time a player screwed up, the coaching staff and his teammates received a text message, calling out both the infraction and the guilty party.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of screwed up
Verb
  • The all-or-nothing nature of sports gets muddled with asterisks and different permutations.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026
  • When the deck is muddled, the thinking behind it usually is too.
    — Andrei Grachev, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of muddled
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  • Rubio is the president’s top adviser on both national security and diplomacy at a moment when the United States has blundered into an unpopular war that appears to be a strategic catastrophe.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 11 May 2026
  • Padres fielders blundered in three of his outings.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
Definition of blundered
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  • But their strategy was fouled up when the car’s occupants switched on the headlights, throwing a glare up the tote road along which the wardens had planned to sprint.
    — Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Wild turkeys gobbled up Staten Island straphangers’ time on Monday, after a flock fouled up service on the Staten Island Railway.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 17 Mar. 2026
Definition of fouled up
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  • The magician boggled audiences with his card tricks and fantastical illusions.
    — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
  • They are boggled even more when told that the Fed creating a new $10,000 out of nothing for one borrowing bank could increase the total national money supply, currency plus bank deposits, several times.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2025
Definition of boggled
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  • Petruzzi argued that knowing about an effort to remove a president was not the same as knowing he would be murdered.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026
  • In what demonstration 500 security and military forces get murdered?
    — CBS News, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of murdered
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  • Some contractor, or postal maintenance employee, had botched the repair.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
  • The Steelers also botched a field goal attempt and couldn’t take advantage of good field position by finishing drives with touchdowns.
    — Josh Kendall, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of botched
Verb
  • Nor did the study show that exercise restores attention, reaction time, judgment or the many other functions impaired by sleep deprivation.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Insisting that lines must be drawn, Scalia argued that an animal should not be considered injured under the ESA simply because its ability to breed had been impaired.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of impaired
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“Piffled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piffled. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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