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Niggling

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Adjective

1. fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial

(informal) small and of little importance

Example Sentences:
'a 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'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Niggling

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adjective
1. 
petty
2. 
fussy
3. 
irritating
4. 
requiring painstaking work
5. 
persistently troubling
a niggling back pain
noun
6. 
an act or instance of niggling

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Niggling

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adj.
Annoying, troubling, or irritating in a petty way: a pointless dispute over niggling details.

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