About The Word Piddling
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Piddling
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What's The Definition Of Piddling?
[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 Piddling: fiddling | footling | lilliputian | little | Mickey Mouse | niggling | petty | picayune | piffling | trivial | unimportant Related Terms | Find terms related to Piddling: cheeseparing | chinchy | chintzy | cramped | dinky | exiguous | half-pint | infrequent | jerkwater | knee-high | limited | little | meager | measly | Mickey Mouse | miserly | niggardly | niggling | one-horse | paltry | peanut | peddling | petite | pettifogging | petty | picayune | picayunish | piffling | pindling | pint-sized | poky | poor | punk | puny | rare | scant | scanty | scarce | scattered | scrimping | scrimpy | seldom met with | seldom seen | short | skimping | skimpy | slight | slim | small | small-beer | smallish | small-time | sparse | spotty | sprinkled | stingy | thin | tight | tinhorn | two-bit | two-by-four See Also | Piddling In Webster's Dictionary \Pid"dling\, a.
Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons
and things.
The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. --Milton.
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