fiddly

/ ˈfɪdlɪ /

adjective

1. small and awkward to do or handle

Example Sentences

If all this sounds a little fiddly, well, just understand that it’s tough to mimic Mother Nature.

From Los Angeles Times

The plans outlined include a lot of fiddly changes to how the government makes big decisions on planning, infrastructure, housing and transport.

From BBC

As detailed, if not instigated, by this paper, the Globes’ former administrators, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., finally dissolved in a flurry of bad publicity over an extreme lack of diversity among its relatively minuscule, dubiously credentialed, infamously persuadable, financially fiddly, disproportionately demanding membership.

From Los Angeles Times

Menstrual cups are really useful to polar researchers as you just take one with you rather than a bulk of tampons to last you months and months, but they can be fiddly to the newbie - unhelpful if you're halfway up a glacier and you've not practiced using one.

From BBC

If this all seems too fiddly, remove the shell altogether, except the tail, and smoke the shrimp following the same method.

From Salon