Sentence examples for still piffling from inspiring English sources
The same one that is offering billions in support, funded by doubled electricity wholesale prices, for nuclear plants, yet claims to be helping households by cutting the piffling environmental tariffs on energy bills (Osborne puts forward plan to reduce household bills by £470, 30 November)?
Its role in financial transactions is piffling.
It's true that claimants are sanctioned for piffling reasons.
Anandtech notes that the overall improved performance is piffling, and detectable.
In 2002 Kenya's exports of technology-related services were a piffling $16m.
The country exported finished hats worth $6m in 2013, up from a piffling $517,000 in 2003.
The bribery charges involve piffling sums compared with other recent cases involving senior officials.
Brazil's gross government debt of 62% may look piffling compared to Greece's 175% or Japan's 227%.
Because markets for land are so ill-developed in Africa and governments so weak, rents are piffling: $2 per hectare per year in Ethiopia; $5 in Liberia.
Most of that came from the states; the central government managed just 1.5 billion reais, a piffling 0.05% of GDP and the worst result for the period since 1998.
