Sentence examples for fiddling from inspiring English sources
"fiddling" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to denote slight or insignificant activities. For example: "She spent the morning fiddling around with her computer instead of working on her project."
adjective
Of petty or trivial importance; footling
- It was a fiddling little fault, but was disastrous.
Fiddling around with the 16 mid-sized laggards who failed, or marginally passed, the summer stress tests is not enough.
I watched movies and TV shows on it, and it was indispensable for fiddling around for boring hours on a plane.
The talk is of tinkering with feed-in tariffs, fiddling with corporate exemptions and encouraging the states to speed up the expansion of the grid.The strategically minded are pushing for more fundamental overhauls.
Mrs Arroyo's opponents have been trying to get her impeached since 2004 for allegedly fiddling that year's presidential election.
At least, it looked like that from the hall.Grave of tone and dressed for a funeral (charcoal suit, slate-grey tie), Mr Miliband spent almost an hour telling British voters that what they want is a new, more moral economy one that rewards "producers" and workers, but punishes "predators" and cheats of all kinds, from bosses wrongly rewarded for failure to scroungers fiddling their welfare claims.
Indeed, the Labour Party spent 18 years in opposition damning the Tories for fiddling the figures.
Mercedes puts air-conditioning controls in the back as well as the front of its cars because people who can afford a Mercedes can also afford a driver.But GE and TCS are doing something more exciting than fiddling with existing products: they are taking the needs of poor consumers as a starting point and working backwards.
McCain-Feingold is basically more fiddling: an attempt to close loopholes by adding further restrictions to the rule book.For instance, a vital part of Mr McCain's bill would ban advertising by independent groups before elections.
Across the road is a Marriott hotel, bustling with young, middle-class Poles in-between flights and business meetings, fiddling with their BlackBerries and chatting on their mobile phones.But foreign travel is not a pastime only for Poland's rich.
The downgraded chancellor did not do enough to turn the economy around in this fiddling-at-the-edges, fiscally neutral budget.
Under this, the Thaksinites' new political vehicle, the People's Power Party PPPP), and two of its coalition partners face disbandment for alleged vote-fiddling in December's elections.
