piddling
amounting to very little; trifling; negligible: a piddling sum of money.
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How to use piddling in a sentence
The Tigers threw off two decades of middling-to-piddling seasons and made folk heroes out of Pudge Rodríguez and Magglio Ordóñez, with right-handed phenom Justin Verlander representing the future.
Detroit Is The Capital Of Bad Sports Right Now | Andrew Mooney | September 13, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightMillions of other Americans will lament they live in cities with strapped budgets that throw piddling BBQs and hand out sparklers.
These are the types of scenarios that would make the current catastrophe in Sendai look piddling by comparison.
Still, I have never forgotten that in my youth, I thought the difference between life and death was piddling.
We were kind of piddling around, and I kind of walked off ahead of him.
Warren Commission (6 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
There are lots of loafers and piddling projects,--but the government's also doing some big jobs, some real construction work.
Class of '29 | Orrie Lashin and Milo HastingsHere I was prepared to remove the drug scourge forever, and at a piddling cost.
Revenge | Arthur PorgesWith this he left us piddling; then within a quarter of an hour came back, and told us the pope-hawk is now to be seen.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. | Francois RabelaisThere were not merely a little piddling dish of salad, a bite of cake, and a dab of ice-cream.
A Certain Rich Man | William Allen White
British Dictionary definitions for piddling
/ (ˈpɪdlɪŋ) /
informal petty; trifling; trivial
Derived forms of piddling
- piddlingly, adverb
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