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FIDDLING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(informal) small and of little importance
Example:
giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
Synonyms:
fiddling; footling; lilliputian; little; niggling; petty; picayune; piddling; piffling; trivial
Classified under:
Similar:
unimportant (not important)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb fiddle
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