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Niggling

adjective
1.
(informal) small and of little importance.  Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial.  "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"






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"Niggling" Quotes from Famous Books



... differed from each other in height 8,000 (or 10,000?) feet, so that they all just rose to the surface at one level, or their sites are marked by buoys of coral. I could never feel sure whether he meant this tremendous catastrophe, all brought about by what Sedgwick called "Lyell's niggling operations," to have been effected during the era of existing species of corals. Perhaps you can tell me, for I am really curious to know...(47/3. The author referred to is ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin



Words linked to "Niggling" :   colloquialism, unimportant



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