piffled

verb

past tense of piffle
as in gummed (up)

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  1. screwed up
  2. muddled
  3. blundered
  4. fouled up
  5. boggled
  6. murdered
  7. botched
  8. impaired
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  • 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
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  • That his collections seemed to try to honor both Demna’s casualwear range and his own couture-like sensibility only muddled the brand’s remit further.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Whatever the original intentions, Crystal Lake is shockingly muddled.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of muddled
Verb
  • 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
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
Definition of boggled
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  • Detectives from the start suspected Panetti had been murdered.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • It was consecrated by James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, young Black and Jewish men murdered together in 1964 for their work to register Black voters.
    — Seth Limmer, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of murdered
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  • Michigan regulatory authorities meted out a summary suspension in late September based on the Virginia suspension and complaints from two Michigan women who allege Sayeg botched their 2024 surgeries.
    — Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Continue reading … NOT ENOUGH — Kash Patel demands apology from MS NOW following botched Russia report.
    — , FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of botched
Verb
  • Casa Brera has accommodations for the hearing impaired and wheelchair accessible showers.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
  • But if the mitochondrial circuits are impaired or if there are simply more electrons from food pouring into the system than the mitochondria can handle, the flow can get bogged down.
    — Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of impaired
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