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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective So trifling or trivial as to be beneath one's consideration.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Trifling. Also
peddling . - Squeamish; difficult to please, especially in eating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Insignificant ,negligible ,paltry ,trivial ,useless . - verb Present participle of
piddle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (informal) small and of little importance
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Examples
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Most wine retails for less than $20, but even if your resources can best be described as piddling, Christmas is not the time for sending Aunt Kate a $7.95 Romanian chardonnay.
SmartMoney.com 2008
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It's also work that Michael Behe called "piddling", despite the fact that it directly addresses the claims of irreducible complexity.
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We're not talking about the kind of piddling savings that comes from giving up your twice-a-week Starbucks
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We're not talking about the kind of piddling savings that comes from giving up your twice-a-week Starbucks
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Bill Clinton drove this point home in his controlled but angry remarks that we have been "piddling" in response to this jobs crisis.
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It's also work that Michael Behe called "piddling", despite the fact that it directly addresses the claims of irreducible complexity.
Mismatch of the decade: Thornton vs. Behe - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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It's also work that Michael Behe called "piddling", despite the fact that it directly addresses the claims of irreducible complexity.
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Not even because of the use of the word 'piddling' as a Parliamentary term.
Saved by Eleanor Burnham Glyn Davies 2007
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Not even because of the use of the word 'piddling' as a Parliamentary term.
Archive 2007-01-01 Glyn Davies 2007
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This is the work that Behe has called "piddling", and claims that it has no relevance to the evolvability of complex biochemical...
Evolution of IC: Evolution of Hormone-Receptor Complexity - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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