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Fiddling synonyms

fĭd'lĭng

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footling
Lacking importance or significance; trifling:
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lilliputian
Very small; tiny
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little
Narrow; petty:
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niggling
(informal) small and of little importance
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petty
Small-minded; mean, narrow, ungenerous, etc.
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picayune
Something not worth arguing about.
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trivial
The definition of trivial is insignificant, or of no importance.
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shirking
To avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility).
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playing
(Music) To perform on an instrument:
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diddling
(Slang) To play experimentally; toy:
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toying
To treat something casually or without seriousness:
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monkeying
To imitate or mimic; ape.
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tampering
(Archaic) To contrive something secretly; plot; scheme
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tinkering
To mend as a tinker.
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touching
To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
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bowing
(Intransitive) To defer (to something).
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trifling
To spend idly; waste
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swindling
To get money or property from (another) under false pretenses; cheat; defraud
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puttering
To dawdle or fritter (something) away
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fidgeting
To move about in a restless, nervous, or impatient way
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doodling
(Informal) To play music in a casual, informal way
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dabbling
To feed by moving the bill back and forth just below the surface or on the bottom in shallow water. Used of ducks.
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cheating
To mislead; fool:
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messing
To bungle; muddle; botch
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meddling
Meddle is defined as intrude in someone else's life or business.
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fooling
To fool is defined as to trick or lie to.
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twiddling
To twirl or play with lightly or idly
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helping (related)
To refrain from; avoid or resist. Used with can or cannot:
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faff (related)
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messing-around (related)
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Fiddling Sentence Examples

  • Fiddling with your cat's nutritional balance because you have embraced a dietary theory can sometimes yield a diet that is dangerously deficient.

  • Excessive fiddling through the menu and leaving the backlight on will obviously reduce this figure, but this iPod still goes on strong for most of your day, even if you have it playing the entire time.

  • If the idea of fiddling with electrical wiring scares you, why not opt for a chandelier that uses candles instead of electricity?

  • The headphones are designed to eliminate all of that pesky fiddling with tangled cables business that accompany most traditional headphones, because the audio wire in fits with the lanyard itself.

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