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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of diddle.

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Examples

  • He hasn't received any financial help and felt "diddled" because he sees so much abuse of the welfare system by others less in need - you only have to open the newspapers to see where he is coming from.

    Activity Update Tracey Crouch 2008

  • So he leavened justice with mercy, and, having dried her tears with his lips, he found himself in the same position as before, with a mad suspicion tattering through his brain that maybe he had been "diddled" again.

    Here are Ladies James Stephens 1916

  • So one can say that they 'diddled' while Rome burned?

    Propeller Most Popular Stories zaph22 2010

  • So one can say that they 'diddled' while Rome burned?

    Propeller Most Popular Stories zaph22 2010

  • So one can say that they 'diddled' while Rome burned?

    Propeller Most Popular Stories zaph22 2010

  • So one can say that they 'diddled' while Rome burned?

    Propeller Most Popular Stories zaph22 2010

  • So one can say that they 'diddled' while Rome burned?

    Propeller Most Popular Stories zaph22 2010

  • He was only on the way to being "diddled" in 1822, but the prophecy (suggested, no doubt, by the announcement of the sale of furniture, etc., at Wanstead

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • I diddled around with writing stories in hypertext, but was never satisfied with the result; they seemed to me either confusing or aimless or simply mechanistic, and at best I came up with something so voluminous that I couldn't possibly complete it in one lifetime.

    MetaHaiku Heather McDougal 2009

  • I diddled around with writing stories in hypertext, but was never satisfied with the result; they seemed to me either confusing or aimless or simply mechanistic, and at best I came up with something so voluminous that I couldn't possibly complete it in one lifetime.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Heather McDougal 2009

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