Примери за piffling

• The average fine was a piffling £1,050, scarcely even pocket money for some major construction firms.

• It is not by these piffling and pettifogging duties that you are going to restore prosperity to industry.

• We have time to deal with this piffling measure this evening.

• What priority do we think that such a piffling piece of nonsense would really rate?

• To leave matters to a mayoral fund is piffling and is not the answer.

• If somebody earns between £80 and £150, again it means piffling pence.

• It leads to a great deal of time being taken up in the courts on rather piffling and futile prosecutions.

• The complaints may seem piffling or eccentric at times.

• If not, the savings would be piffling and not worth all the confusion.

• These same duties, which were too utterly piffling to keep out imports, will be fatally effective in keeping out reparations.

• If we do, do not let us introduce this piffling restriction.

• What we are giving them in aid is piffling.

• It might seem presumptuous of me to raise what some people would consider the piffling matter of mock auctions.

• I think that all the words she uses about "piffling inadequacy" should be echoed by me.

• The reason why he gave the piffling reply that he did was that he did not have a proper answer to the debate.