PIFFLED Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

piffled

verb

past tense of piffle

as in gummed (up)

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Every time a player screwed up, the coaching staff and his teammates received a text message, calling out both the infraction and the guilty party.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
That growth is mostly a testament to how screwed up our school bus system currently is.

— Maggie McGrath, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of screwed up

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That the film can’t see this is a sign of how muddled its politics are, especially in its treatment of the tension between nature and modernity.

— Caspar Salmon, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
Not everything can be exclusively grand monsteras and glossy ferns; most artworks come muddled with the tat of mirrors and whirligigs, too.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of muddled

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Rubio is the president’s top adviser on both national security and diplomacy at a moment when the United States has blundered into an unpopular war that appears to be a strategic catastrophe.

— David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 11 May 2026
Padres fielders blundered in three of his outings.

— Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026

Definition of blundered

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But their strategy was fouled up when the car’s occupants switched on the headlights, throwing a glare up the tote road along which the wardens had planned to sprint.

— Dave Duffey, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
Wild turkeys gobbled up Staten Island straphangers’ time on Monday, after a flock fouled up service on the Staten Island Railway.

— Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 17 Mar. 2026

Definition of fouled up

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The magician boggled audiences with his card tricks and fantastical illusions.

— Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
They are boggled even more when told that the Fed creating a new $10,000 out of nothing for one borrowing bank could increase the total national money supply, currency plus bank deposits, several times.

— Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2025

Definition of boggled

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If the appeals court agrees, Patterson would only be the second woman to receive a full life sentence in Australia, after Katherine Knight, who murdered her de facto husband and cooked parts of his body.

— Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026
On August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother, Andrew and Abby Borden, were murdered in the family’s home in Fall River, Massachusetts.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of murdered

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This was an investigation into post-election violence in Kenya that was botched so badly the case fell apart.

— Daniel Markind, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Ramos went hitless in four at-bats Saturday and didn’t appear to run out a ground ball that shortstop Andrés Giménez initially botched in the sixth inning.

— Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of botched

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Investigators determined that Skinner was impaired and failed to maintain his lane before crossing over the line and colliding with the CHP cruiser.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
Bruce retired from acting in 2022 after receiving an aphasia diagnosis, which impaired his communication and cognitive abilities.

— Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 14 Aug. 2026

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