Sentence examples for the fiddling from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of petty or trivial importance; footling
- It was a fiddling little fault, but was disastrous.
The category also includes variations on popular fiddle songs, like "The Orange Blossom Special," a tune as familiar to the fiddling community as "Happy Birthday" is to the rest of us.
And I entirely forgot to mention the fiddling of expenses.
But the fiddling damaged the reputation of Mr Karamanlis's government too.
He was the architect of Argentina's exchange controls and the fiddling of inflation statistics.
To minimize the fiddling, the base also contains a four-port U.S.B. hub.
The music — guitars, violins, drums, keyboards — became more propulsive, more like rock; sometimes the fiddling sounded a bit Scottish.
Is the bureau fiddling the figures to fit with a global warming conspiracy?
We had been waiting in the car, fiddling with the windows, trying to endure the heat — and starving to death.
In the stern, fiddling with the flyrods and light spinning gear, is the first mate, Tony "Dawg" D'Andrea, a retired city sanitation worker.
She was sweet then, eager to please, riding in the truck, fiddling with the radio, asking him at each song, "Is this good?
The hype in the headlines is the customary fiddling around.
