1. people who talk or write in a trivial, foolish, or evasive manner; those who engage in piffle
Usage: informal; plural form of piffle

Examples

• The panel was full of pifflers who avoided answering the real questions.
• Don't listen to those pifflers—they're just making excuses.
• The debate devolved into a contest between pifflers spouting nonsense.
• She dismissed the critics as mere pifflers with nothing substantive to say.