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  • noun Plural form of piss-ant.

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  • It doesn't stop at pillorying undergraduates, but produces the occasional post that skewers graduate students for being whining, careless little piss-ants.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Tenured Radical 2009

  • It doesn't stop at pillorying undergraduates, but produces the occasional post that skewers graduate students for being whining, careless little piss-ants.

    The Radical's History Reviewed: When I Was Bad, I Was Horrid Tenured Radical 2009

  • Instead of calling residents "piss-ants", why don't you meet with them and explain what you are proposing?

    How Does the City Stop Activists? Price Them Out of Existence! 2009

  • July 9th, 2006 at 7: 04 pm ann coulter says: well, we would have never won world war ii with piss-ants like hoekstra in congress … weak-kneed cowardly terrorist pig! since he is not with us, he is against us; his letters help the terrorists and hurt america by doubting our fearlessly brave president.

    Think Progress » Hoekstra: Admin. Must ‘Keep the Intelligence Committees Fully Informed of What They Are Doing’ 2006

  • Now that he is dead, the weenies and piss-ants in the media and the above categories will take shots at him because he can't fight back and humiliate them on his own airtime; It's like what they did to Rush when they thought he was going off the air.

    Gene Scott, RIP - BatesLine 2005

  • Why, there was as many folks at that shindig as piss-ants in a holler log.

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • All the Salvation Army piss-ants blowing trumpets and shaking tambourines.

    Eight Black Horses Ed McBain 1985

  • I felt that somehow I had triumphed over my altruistic impulses; unlike other knee-jerk liberals who discov - ered their souls weren't all that lily-white, I discovered I enjoyed the darkness, the hatred, the loathing of my spirit as I contemplated the banality of those worthless piss-ants.

    An East Wind Coming Cover, Arthur Byron 1979

  • "I know we're just little piss-ants compared to the NFL, but seriously, the NFL is turning into the ugly American when it comes to sports leagues," said Cuban, who, not for nothing, considers Cowboys 'owner

    NBC Dallas-Fort Worth - Top Stories 2010

  • Apparently last year they ran a story showing some piss-ants caught on camera selling the stuff.

    Top Stories | nashvillecitypaper.com 2010

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