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Trifling; insignificant; twaddling. [Colloq.] We are sorry to learn that the long controversy carried on in the English Notes and Queries in regard to the use of the split infinitive has closed with but a piffling result. N. Y. Times, March 18, 1905.

English magazines were too piffling, too imbecile. — Lawrence - Kangaroo
If he can't do this here, then his global rhetoric will look thin indeed - and it's no use announcing some piffling sum and pretending it will do. — Spectator Live
This special 'R' version is a massive 7kg lighter than the already 'Slim-Fast' base Bimota DB6 model and tips the scales at a piffling 170kg, wet with no fuel.
They can be amateurish and piffling (traits to which this one can only aspire), but at least they are genuine. — Mirror.co.uk - News
Think Twitter and TwitPic, only on Facebook, since Twitter didn't want Facebook's piffling $500m of stock. — Crave at CNET UK