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Recent Examples of piddle
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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for piddle
Verb
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And when the commercial harvest was closed, at least one federal official speculated that any further research might get curtailed, since those anglers, many of them rich and well connected, wouldn’t want scientists mucking around in what had become their territory.—
Boyce Upholt,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 June 2025
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Again, not mucking it up and people liking it, which was great.—
Antonia Blyth,
Deadline,
7 June 2025
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But the bone-dry cabin air and the altitude can really mess things up.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
17 June 2025
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Trim overhanging limbs and relocate furniture to avoid popular bird perches that drop messes onto your patio.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
11 June 2025
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Paired with the gray-ish green color palette, sparse decor, and dark atmospherics in the Institute itself, the bleak vibes may be enough to turn some viewers off for good, especially those horror purists who tune in hoping to be terrified rather than just bummed out.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
13 July 2025
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In a lot of ways obviously, devastated and bummed out.—
Mike Fitzpatrick,
Baltimore Sun,
5 July 2025
Verb
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Having some people who are cheaters or are trifling?—
Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
21 May 2025
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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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As if aware that engaging plot is not the story’s strongest suit, Nicholaw keeps his foot on the accelerator throughout, making sure nothing and no one dawdles as the production hurtles from one incident to the next.—
David Benedict,
Variety,
24 June 2025
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Some of this feels more like dawdling: What's the point of Stick's cynical old buddy (Marc Maron) getting trapped under a fold-out bed?—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
4 June 2025
Verb
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His impersonation is so convincing that Lu and Shin are initially fooled.—
Allison DeGrushe Published,
EW.com,
14 July 2025
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The Mets couldn’t pick up his slider and were fooled on his changeup.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
13 July 2025
Verb
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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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The researchers observed that this particular population of orangutans also build slightly simpler nests for daytime naps, in contrast to other groups which frequently just laze on bare branches.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
25 June 2025
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The 576-square-foot gem is perfect for wading, doing morning laps, or just lazing alongside with a good book.—
Matthew Monagan,
Travel + Leisure,
3 June 2025
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“Piddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piddle. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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