niggling
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nig·gling
(nĭg′lĭng)adj.
Annoying, troubling, or irritating in a petty way: a pointless dispute over niggling details.
nig′gling·ly adv.
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niggling
(ˈnɪɡlɪŋ)adj
1. petty
2. fussy
3. irritating
4. requiring painstaking work
5. persistently troubling: a niggling back pain.
n
an act or instance of niggling
ˈnigglingly adv
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nig•gling
(ˈnɪg lɪŋ)adj.
1. petty; trivial; inconsequential.
2. demanding too much care, attention, time, etc.
[1590–1600]
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| Adj. | 1. | niggling - (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech unimportant - not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant" |
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niggling
adjective
1. irritating, troubling, persistent, bothersome Both players have been suffering from niggling injuries.
2. petty, minor, trifling, insignificant, unimportant, fussy, quibbling, picky (informal), piddling (informal), nit-picking (informal), finicky, pettifogging They started having tiffs about the most niggling little things.
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niggling
adjectiveContemptibly unimportant:
inconsiderable, negligible, nugatory, paltry, petty, picayune, piddling, small, small-minded, trifling.
Slang: measly.
Idiom: of no account.
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niggling
[ˈnɪglɪŋ]A. ADJ [detail] → engorroso; [doubt, suspicion] → persistente, constante; [injury] → molesto, molestoso (LAm); [person] → quisquilloso
B. N (= complaints) → quejas fpl
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niggling
[ˈnɪglɪŋ] adj [doubt, worry] → persistant(e)
[pain, injury] → qui se réveille régulièrement
[detail] → insignifiant(e)
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niggling
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