piffles

verb

present tense third-person singular of piffle
as in screws up

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  1. screws up
  2. blunders
  3. boots
  4. muddles
  5. murders
  6. boggles
  7. botches
  8. damages
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  • But what really screws up Julia are the deliveries.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Kyle tries to jump up the wall, lands awkwardly, and screws up his ankle.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
Definition of screws up
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  • And then Ron somehow blunders his way into getting the number jacked up to $100,000 in return for their silence.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 14 Mar. 2026
Definition of blunders
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  • Back at the hotel, Vision boots up his head-laser when Paladin’s drone approaches.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Olise always takes it and boots the ball straight out of play.
    — Stuart James, New York Times, 14 July 2026
Definition of boots
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  • Our driving-city culture necessarily muddles or fuses the definitions of restaurant and bar.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The Archipelago muddles on for fifty years until the Lough’s beset by an ecological crisis.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 July 2026
Definition of muddles
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  • This included three of the women involved in the brutal Manson murders — Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten — all scheduled to be gassed.
    — M. Sara Rosenthal, STAT, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Joe almost murders Morgan (Sherry and Morgan in the same episode?
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of murders
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  • As with the Qatari case, the Kuwaiti decision boggles the mind, especially when tankers could be used to ferry valuable crude rather than becoming scrap.
    — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Why someone would want a plush Javert, even in bear form, boggles the mind.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 30 July 2026
Definition of boggles
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  • In clinical environments bound by federal regulations and ethics guidelines, an LLM that hallucinates an endpoint or botches eligibility criteria does not just cause a minor hiccup.
    — Anshima Raj, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Then the candidate, unfamiliar with some far-away region of the world, botches it.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of botches
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  • Writing strips out the reactive tone that damages trust and forces people to engage with the actual argument instead of the way it was said.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The condition, in which reduced blood flow damages the optic nerve, can cause sudden and permanent vision loss.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of damages
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