piffling

• “Counterfeit goods in South Africa account for a "piffling" amount compared to other countries internationally, SA Revenue”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “The movie I mention above was mostly bad, but I think the part about the publicist with the hot stars as clients and how badly magazines suck up to them must be painfully close to how things are at EW with these sickeningly overexposed piffling talents who shall not be mentioned by me anymore.”

  Megan Fox on 'SNL': Will she be funny or crazy? Will you be watching to find out? | EW.com

• “So piffling was it that Vega was able to control it with his feet and start a Venezuela attack.”

  The Guardian: Copa América 2011: Paraguay v Venezuela – as it happened | Jacob Steinberg

• “Indeed, it wanted just a piffling 3% or so for its trouble.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Are These Havens Really the Safest Places to go?

• “And in arenas that accommodate many more thousands than the already large, but by comparison piffling, Foxwoods, nuances like refined acting and literate lyrics -- those possibly to-be-forgotten pluses of one-time Broadway -- mean less to viewers than audacious flying, lighting and sound effects.”

  The Huffington Post: David Finkle: First Nighter: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Turns Off the Past

• “I scoff at their 2,000 books, Litlove, and I look forwarding to your singlehandedly dismantling this piffling prediction.”

  Life Begins At 40 « Tales from the Reading Room

• “The first of those sets lasted a piffling 27 minutes, featured a break of Tsonga's serve in the opening game and otherwise required Federer to call on no more energy than he must expend sitting in chairs with an enigmatic expression on his face for those Credit Suisse advertisements.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Fed Express Fails to Deliver

• “And when Musharraf was finally forced to hold a free and fair election in February 2008 under pressure from both the United States and ordinary Pakistanis, the pro-Taliban parties won only a piffling 2 percent of the vote.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Longest War

• “Folks who have just laughed at the piffling 65,000,000 yen should check the requirements before laughing - no women or foreigners allowed - only Japanese males over the age of 35.”

  Boing Boing

• “It only managed a piffling, 0.1% increase in the last quarter of the old year.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Fiscal Collapse: A Field Guide for Stockholders

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