fiddling

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adjective

(informal) 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
- 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
• Syn:
footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling,
piffling, petty, picayune, trivial
• Similar to:
unimportant
• Derivationally related forms:
trivialize (for: trivial), trivia (for: trivial), triviality (for: trivial), pettiness (for: petty), littleness (for: little)
• Usage Domain:
colloquialism