Piffling vs Trifling - What's the difference?
piffling | trifling |
trivial, or of little importance
* 2005 , .
idle or frivolous
The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.
* George Croly, Samuel Warren, Marston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman
As adjectives the difference between piffling and trifling
is that piffling is unimportant while trifling is trivial, or of little importance.As a verb piffling
is .As a noun trifling is
the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.trifling
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- it doesn't take him long to make any of them, and he sells them for some trifling sum of money.
Synonyms
* trivial * inconsequential * petty * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- He writes on the principle, of course, that in one's dotage we are privileged to return to the triflings of our infancy, and that Downing Street cannot be better employed in these days than as a chapel of ease to Eton.
