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English adjective: niggling

1. niggling (informal) small and of little importance


SamplesA 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.


Synonymsfiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial


Similarunimportant


Domain usagecolloquialism


Antonymsimportant, of import









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