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Niggling

Niggling Meaning & Definition
Niggling Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Niggling?

[adj] (informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Niggling: fiddling | footling | lilliputian | little | Mickey Mouse | petty | picayune | piddling | piffling | trivial | unimportant

Related Terms | Find terms related to Niggling: adverse criticism | advertent | agog | alert | all ears | all eyes | animadversion | annoying | aspersion | assiduous | attentive | aware | bad notices | bad press | captious | captiousness | careful | carping | cavil | caviling | censoriousness | concentrated | conscious | critical | criticism | cynical | diligent | earnest | exception | faultfinding | finical | finicking | finicky | flak | frivolous | fussy | hairsplitting | heedful | hit | home thrust | hostile criticism | hypercritical | hypercriticalness | hypercriticism | imputation | inconsequential | insignificant | intense | intent | intentive | irksome | irritating | jerkwater | knock | measly | meticulous | Mickey Mouse | mindful | nagging | nice | niggle | nit | nit-picking | nugatory | obloquy | observant | observing | on the ball | on the job | one-horse | open-eared | open-eyed | openmouthed | overcritical | overcriticalness | paltry | peanut | pestering | pettifogging | petty | picayune | picayunish | piddling | piffling | poky | priggishness | punk | puny | quibble | quibbling | rap | reflection | regardful | reproachfulness | slam | small-beer | small-time | stricture | swipe | taking exception | tinhorn | trichoschistic | trichoschistism | trifling | trivial | troublesome | two-bit | two-by-four | ultracritical | unimportant | vexatious | vexing | watchful | worrisome | worrying

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Niggling In Webster's Dictionary

\Nig"gling\, n. Finicky or pottering work; specif. (Fine Arts), minute and very careful workmanship in drawing, painting, or the like, esp. when bestowed on unimportant detail.

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