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[ UK /pˈɪdlɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɪdəɫɪŋ, ˈpɪdɫɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (informal) small and of little importance
    our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
    giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
    a little (or small) matter
    limited to petty enterprises
    a fiddling sum of money
    piffling efforts
    piffling efforts
    a footling gesture
    a dispute over niggling details

How To Use piddling In A Sentence

  • Neither of us was even slightly the worse for wear as we both have the body weight to adsorb such a piddling amount of alcohol. What was Althouse drinking?
  • Its images tumble, proliferate and cross-hatch; they are extravagant and loopy and defiantly enormous in their ambition, making everything else look petty and piddling.
  • The $1.65 million penalty is piddling to the huge banks.
  • Even gents' public toilets are organised so that conversation need not be interrupted by the proceedings; piddling in company seems an integral part of the male bonding experience.
  • It was just a piddling one-drop-a-second leak.
  • The much vaunted Hunting Act 2004 (vaunted, that is, by Fascistic Bigots) has resulted in a piddling number of largely piddling prosecutions since coming into force. Vigilantes Receive Smart Smack On Snout
  • I get 25% of my own money back in cash, and the rest becomes a piddling annual income, on which I pay higher-rate tax.
  • They were aristocrats with little interest in piddling estates of 30 hides.
  • The play is to be perceived as a satire on big business, which these piddling rogues try to emulate and, in their puny way, supposedly mirror.
  • This may be a piddling observation, but you can hardly whine when your own writers get your URL wrong - and you publish their mistakes.
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