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    NIGGLING

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (adjective) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    (informal) small and of little importanceplay

    Example:

    giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction

    Synonyms:

    fiddling; footling; lilliputian; little; niggling; petty; picayune; piddling; piffling; trivial

    Classified under:

    Adjectives

    Similar:

    unimportant (not important)

    Domain usage:

    colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

     II. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    -ing form of the verb niggle

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