fiddling

Plural: fiddlings

Verb

• avoid (one's assigned duties)
• commit fraud and steal from one's employer
  • "We found out that she had been fiddling for years"
• play the violin or fiddle
• play on a violin
• manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
• play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
• try to fix or mend
• present participle and gerund of fiddle

Adjective Satellite

• (informal) small and of little importance
  • "a fiddling sum of money"

Noun

• action of the verb to fiddle

Adj

• Of petty or trivial importance; footling

Examples

• He was fiddling while Rome burned.
• It was a fiddling little fault, but ultimately proved disastrous.

Synonyms

diddle, fiddle, footling, goldbrick, lilliputian, little, monkey, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, play, shirk, shrink from, tamper, tinker, toy, trivial

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