Sentence examples for diddly from inspiring English sources
noun
A small amount of no worth.
"We have a legislature that was pounded on for a year to do something, and they did diddly," says Paul Baldwin, a prominent Maui rancher.
Congratulations, Mit-Rom.Speaking of Mr Barbour: hitting the Sunday morning talk-show circuit, as he is wont to do, he said that Bob McDonnell, the governor of Virginia, had done nothing wrong by issuing a proclamation celebrating Confederate history that made no mention of slavery, and that the omission "doesn't amount to diddly".
The liberal magazine Mother Jones gave out prizes last month (the "Diddly" awards) to the most outstanding climate change deniers.
Jack Welch, the short, balding GE boss responsible for the deal, said later, "I didn't know a diddly about it.
Diddly squat.The figures are telling.
The Scot's freshly-minted status as Olympic and US Open champion meant diddly to the free-swinging albatross from Lodz.
Apart from playing the cello for one year when I was 10, my knowledge of the genre is the square root of diddly-squat.
Jordan stretches to the sea; the West Bank and Gaza stand out boldly; but as for the sovereign state recognised in 1948: zilch; nada; nix; diddly-squat.
(Chinen) Gerald Cleaver and Black Host (Friday and Saturday) A jazz drummer of observant poise, Mr. Cleaver has been leading an intriguingly blustery new band this week: Darius Jones on alto saxophone, Brandon Seabrook on guitar, Pascal Niggenkemper on bass and Cooper-Moore on piano and diddly-bow.
"As ever, Ritchie has some bareknuckle fighting in slow-motion interspersed with very-quick-speeded-up-motion and there's plenty of diddly-diddly Irish folk music in the background.
It's pointless me telling you about what each track sounds like as both 20-minute (or so) pieces go, "widdly-diddly-ohhhhmmmm-oooohhhhhh" in the most wonderful and enlightening way.
