fiddling
IPA: fˈɪdɫɪŋ
noun
- action of the verb to fiddle
adjective
- Of petty or trivial importance; footling
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Examples of "fiddling" in Sentences
- A great way of digital fiddling is tuning my blog.
- If the helicopter can fly itself, what was Robin fiddling around with the joystick for?
- They can spend hours online, e-mailing their boyfriends, while I delight in fiddling with my depthfinder.
- The long action gives me a bit more flexibility in fiddling with OAL and my never-ending quest for smaller groups.
- They will pay me, and I'd like to earn some money as the other boys do, and fiddling is the only way I know how to do it –
- Dr Patrick, who researched the subject for a PhD, said: The academics call this ‘gaming’ but front line police officers would call it fiddling the figures, massaging the books or, the current favourite term, ‘good housekeeping’.
- This has all the hallmarks of the corrosively inept statist governing style of the Brown Blair period, their botched administrative fiddling is directly responsible for worsening the chaos and destruction in this area as it has been in so many others.
- Finally, Lasher characterizes me - whom he has never met -- as believing that the most important principle of all is that one may never criticize any rabbi, even if it means denying reality, blaming the victim, and covering up for the guilty - in short, fiddling while Rome burns.
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