piffled

past tense of piffle

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for piffled
Verb
  • In a world of near-constant conference realignment and the transfer portal, the annual Red River Rivalry game at the State Fair of Texas is one of the few things the sport hasn’t screwed up.
    Jim Barnes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Oct. 2025
  • How do things get so screwed up?
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As a result of financial and personal problems, Bíró's invention ended up muddled in a number of international patents and licensing agreements in different companies and individuals in various countries.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Together the flavor is muddled, slightly discordant, but alone the Irish whiskey gets to sing, its apples and pears and slight malt and gentle touch a perfect foil to the zesty front palate of the lemon and the deep finish of the almonds.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Brady is also working with Kudos to adapt The Other Half, Charlotte Vassell’s novel about an ambitious young detective investigating the death of a posh socialite, found murdered on Hampstead Heath.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Paul had been charged with three felony counts, including boating under the influence, and was awaiting trial when he was murdered.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the show has hosted plenty of controversial musical performances, such as NBC removing upside-down American flags from Rage Against the Machine’s amps in 1996 to Ashlee Simpson’s botched vocal performance in 2004.
    William Earl, Variety, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Made all the worse, that final play by Miami was botched by a mistake that led to the pickoff.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The 35-year-old is severely hearing impaired and has limited ability to speak.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Clausen allegedly had five of eight possible clues of driving while impaired during a walk and turn test, including losing balance while walking and starting before being told to begin, according to court documents.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The new longer-range variant – dubbed the UMPB-5 – has already been used in strikes against Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine in recent days.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
  • On a limestone monument dubbed Foundation Rock, archaeologists have identified a powerful and extremely rare Maya queen who ruled Cobá in the sixth century AD.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Some are clearly ironic, but the line between blind devotion and mocking derision is seriously mangled.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The Ed Gein Story jumps around in time, in part to make connections to the other adaptations and in part because the biographical chronology is so mangled that any distraction is welcome.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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“Piffled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piffled. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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