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- you should delegate these fiddling matters to your staff so that you can focus on more important issues
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of fiddling (Entry 3 of 3)
- the executive fiddled with a pen as she impatiently waited for the meeting to begin
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- conscienceless grifters who had spent their lives fiddling the naive
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- beating,
- bilking,
- bleeding,
- cheating,
- chiseling
- (or chiselling),
- chousing,
- conning,
- cozening,
- defrauding,
- diddling,
- doing,
- doing in,
- euchring,
- fleecing,
- flimflamming,
- gaffing,
- hosing
- [slang],
- hustling,
- mulcting,
- nobbling
- [British slang],
- plucking,
- reaming,
- ripping off,
- rooking,
- screwing,
- shaking down,
- shortchanging,
- shorting,
- skinning,
- skunking,
- squeezing,
- sticking,
- stiffing,
- stinging,
- suckering,
- swindling,
- thimblerigging,
- victimizing
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