Adjective : a piddling sum of money. From Dictionary.com.
Not even because of the use of the word 'piddling' as a Parliamentary term. From Wordnik.com. [Saved by Eleanor Burnham] Reference
We're not talking about the kind of piddling savings that comes from giving up your twice-a-week Starbucks. From Wordnik.com. [Retirement Catch-Up: How To Start In Your 50s] Reference
This is the work that Behe has called "piddling", and claims that it has no relevance to the evolvability of complex biochemical. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution of IC: Evolution of Hormone-Receptor Complexity - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Bill Clinton drove this point home in his controlled but angry remarks that we have been "piddling" in response to this jobs crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Carl Pope: Put the Unemployed First] Reference
It's also work that Michael Behe called "piddling", despite the fact that it directly addresses the claims of irreducible complexity. From Wordnik.com. [The Panda's Thumb: PZ Myers Archives] Reference
Banks won't chase me for this piddling amount!. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from The Vicious Circulation of Dr Catastrope] Reference
It makes one feel such a damned, piddling amateur. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
Atoms in the likes of us make up a piddling 4 percent. From Wordnik.com. [In ‘Dark Energy,’ Cosmic Humility] Reference
He is, in that admittedly piddling sense, the better bet. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary: Pledged Delegates Can Switch Candidates] Reference
I had been piddling around trying to find something to do. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Alexander M. Rivera, February 1, 2002. Interview C-0298. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Is their piddling little protest going to make a difference?. From Wordnik.com. [qdiosa Diary Entry] Reference
In the end, says Constantine, Troopergate was piddling stuff. From Wordnik.com. [The Year of Governing Dangerously] Reference
And now it's just piddling semantics over 'weather' and 'climate'. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
Is this the calm before the cliche, or just the piddling aftershock?. From Wordnik.com. [bard Diary Entry] Reference
People bursting an aneurysm over every piddling decision is ludicrous. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Campaign Condemns Wes Clark's Comments About McCain] Reference
I come to town and stayed about two weeks, piddling around to git along. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
Still, my haunting him was piddling punishment compared to what he deserves. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunting]
November 2003, A: I get a piddling bonus for all of my hard work over the past year. From Wordnik.com. [elfpvke Diary Entry] Reference
November 2003, B: I get a piddling bonus for all of my hard work over the past year. From Wordnik.com. [elfpvke Diary Entry] Reference
This guy was out there trying to get some piddling little PR thing, it didn ` t work. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2007] Reference
Methinks this is one piddling contribution that Joe would behoove himself to renounce. From Wordnik.com. [CT-SEN: Neocon Bill Kristol Donates to Lieberman] Reference
And Enron's totals are almost piddling compared to insider sales at many other companies. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2002] Reference
Except for the portions reserved for the two cooks, there was not a crumb of piddling left. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
Its 1,001-horsepower engine can make the car go 250mph and get you a piddling 3mpg doing it. From Wordnik.com. [A Car You Could Frame] Reference
Such piddling concerns aside, New York real estate overwhelmingly and profoundly hearts Mike. From Wordnik.com. [Big Real Estate Would Love Bloomberg Triplex] Reference
This is shown most symbolically by the piddling little "fountain" that is her alleged memorial. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Sixty thousand dinars was no piddling sum to be whipped up by a few rattles of the begging cup. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Art, luckily, mattered more than the piddling strictures of the law, and Muybridge was acquitted. From Wordnik.com. [Eadweard Muybridge: pioneer photographer] Reference
So I always was piddling with something else in case something happened with the flying end of it. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with James W. (Jim) Connor, December 19, 1999. Interview K-0818. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Oh well, if i must have an aneurism, i guess i'd just as soon have one over piddling little things. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Campaign Condemns Wes Clark's Comments About McCain] Reference
The VEHEMENCE and ANIMOSITY extended to Obama for this piddling teensy infraction is amazing to me. From Wordnik.com. [Big Gay Rights Group Condemns Obama For Campaign Event With Antigay Singer] Reference
As Bill Cohen said, they're 22 countries, but most of them are piddling, small, little contingents. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2003] Reference
I wasn't but about sixteen or seventeen, I don't think, when I was a-piddling around working with him some. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Hoy Deal, July 3 and 11, 1979. Interview H-0117. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Poor people have taken to kidnapping from the not-quite-as-poor — and even from neighbors and relatives — for piddling ransoms. From Wordnik.com. [Why Hate Freedomland? Roth's Film Honest About Race] Reference
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