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
  • But four years ago, Sorsby screwed up in a massive way.
    — Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026
  • The two screwed up a top-rope stunner as Excalibur struggled to explain what happened like a 2026 Jim Ross.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
Definition of screwed up
Verb
  • Patrick Mahomes’ season-ending knee injury in Week 15 further marred and muddled it.
    — Vahe Gregorian July 31, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026
  • Witt is, in my opinion, the best all-around player in baseball, but his value is spread into so many different facets of the game that the case gets muddled.
    — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 22 July 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
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Jones was only three doors from his house, visiting his neighbor, 46-year-old Jwon Martin, when Jones and Martin were murdered.
    — Jermont Terry, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Jackson initially cast Ryan Gosling as the father of Susie Salmon, the protagonist who’s murdered by a serial killer early in the story and narrates the fallout from heaven.
    — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of murdered
Verb
  • New starting center Jared Wilson botched another snap working with Maye.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 30 July 2026
  • Clark’s ouster, meanwhile, was botched, as a leak left ESPN brass scrambling to inform the former Steelers safety that he was being released Monday during an NFL Live commercial break.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of botched
Verb
  • According to the Palo Alto Police Department, the other driver was uninjured, neither driver was impaired, and no one was cited.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2026
  • The actor wore contact lenses while portraying Eumaeus, which impaired his eyesight.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 22 July 2026
Definition of impaired
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