Words that rhyme with pitiful

  • civil
    adj 1: applying to ordinary citizens as contrasted with the military; "civil authorities" 2: not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others; "even if he didn't like them he should have been civil"- W.S. Maugham [syn: civil, polite] [ant: rude, uncivil] 3: of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state; "civil affairs"; "civil strife"; "civil disobedience"; "civil branches of government" 4: of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals; "civil rights"; "civil liberty"; "civic duties"; "civic pride" [syn: civil, civic] 5: (of divisions of time) legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life; "the civil calendar"; "a civil day begins at mean midnight" [ant: sidereal] 6: of or in a condition of social order; "civil peoples"
  • piffle
    n 1: trivial nonsense [syn: balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle] v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble] 2: act in a trivial or ineffective way
  • riffle
    n 1: a small wave on the surface of a liquid [syn: ripple, rippling, riffle, wavelet] 2: shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners v 1: twitch or flutter; "the paper flicked" [syn: flick, ruffle, riffle] 2: look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume" [syn: flick, flip, thumb, riffle, leaf, riff] 3: stir up (water) so as to form ripples [syn: ripple, ruffle, riffle, cockle, undulate] 4: shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix
  • skiffle
    n 1: a style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments
  • sniffle
    n 1: the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested) [syn: snuffle, sniffle, snivel] v 1: cry or whine with snuffling; "Stop snivelling--you got yourself into this mess!" [syn: snivel, sniffle, blubber, blub, snuffle] 2: inhale audibly through the nose; "the sick student was sniffling in the back row" [syn: sniff, sniffle]
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  • whiffle

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