as in to muck
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Recent Examples of piddle
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.
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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
In all of 2020 and 2021, the bonds paid 0.2% a year on average, giving Harry a piddling $6,000 annually.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 May 2024
The piddling contributions were a protest of a campus culture that, in the eyes of critics, had restricted political speech while giving free rein to anti-Semitism.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
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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
In all of 2020 and 2021, the bonds paid 0.2% a year on average, giving Harry a piddling $6,000 annually.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 May 2024
The piddling contributions were a protest of a campus culture that, in the eyes of critics, had restricted political speech while giving free rein to anti-Semitism.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for piddle
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Instead of merely mucking it up, Vancouver began to muck its way into the game.Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
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Drillers used mucking poles to vault between platforms because setting a boot in the muck was a risk.Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 21 Aug. 2024
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Some big studios completely changed their films very close to the finish line, which sometimes can mess things up.Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2025
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The most successful, or at least fascinating, of these movies tends to mess in one way or another with his seemingly carefree relationship to notions of authenticity or identity.Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
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Picture a disheveled gambler, with his empty pockets sticking out, trying to bum a smoke from someone on the Las Vegas strip.Jay Paris, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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When someone in the music industry told him that Deconstruction had already broken up, the news deeply bummed him out.Aaron Gilbreath, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024
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This should tell you everything about how trifling these lists are.Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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The scorers of eight goals, while giving up a trifling one.Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2024
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Instead, Spurs dawdled during negotiations and, in the end, Slot stayed with the Dutch club for another season before joining Liverpool.Oli Gamp, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
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Once again, the Packers — who still had two timeouts — diddled and dawdled and didn’t run another play until there were just 16 seconds left in the half.Rob Reischel, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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However, others have questioned how she was so easily fooled.Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
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The attackers disguise themselves as fake Google Ads login pages to fool advertisers, who are then phished for their account credentials.Davey Winder, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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The Bears will be prepared for the environment, but getting that Morgantown monkey off their back will take a lot more than imagined.Michael Haag, Dallas News, 10 Oct. 2022
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With supply running low toward the end of most evenings, savvy bun fanatics don’t monkey around, routinely calling ahead to request an extra skillet of rolls set aside just for them. Ettan.Valerie Demicheva and Flora Chang, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 July 2021
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Tule elk wander Point Reyes and elephant seals laze on its beaches.Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 30 Dec. 2024
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Getty The best things to do in Lake Annecy There are more than enough opportunities to laze about with coffee and pain au chocolat, meander through Old Town Annecy’s labyrinth streets (especially during its spectacular Christmas Market season), or unwind at several spas.Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Piddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piddle. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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