piddled; piddling
ˈpid-liŋ 
ˈpi-dᵊl-iŋ
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There’s even a humbling sequence set in the real Carrara, where, against the quarry’s raw splendor, the mighty modern excavators look as piddling as Hot Wheels on the basement stairs.
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Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
And when the Adams character recovers her premarital creativity as an artist, Heller inadvertently trivializes her gallery show with a brief, piddling montage of making dead-animal taxidermy and painting Alex Katz–style portraits of her pregnant friends.
—Armond White, National Review, 13 Dec. 2024
And the company’s assets—its cars, their parts, and its intellectual property—may be too piddling to attract another firm to take up the mantle of service and repair.
—Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 30 June 2024
Every other twenty-first-century geopolitical trend will look piddling by comparison.
—Kevin Drum, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
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Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
And when the Adams character recovers her premarital creativity as an artist, Heller inadvertently trivializes her gallery show with a brief, piddling montage of making dead-animal taxidermy and painting Alex Katz–style portraits of her pregnant friends.
—Armond White, National Review, 13 Dec. 2024
And the company’s assets—its cars, their parts, and its intellectual property—may be too piddling to attract another firm to take up the mantle of service and repair.
—Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 30 June 2024
Every other twenty-first-century geopolitical trend will look piddling by comparison.
—Kevin Drum, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
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“Piddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piddle. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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