piddle

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Recent Examples of piddle 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 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 See All Example Sentences for piddle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for piddle
Verb
  • Even though this team isn't good at shooting threes, their defense mucks everything up enough to win games.
    Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The Mountaineers found some success with the full court press in the third quarter and used the ball pressure to muck the game up.
    Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • So, avoid messing things up with these simple tips for cooking delicious, juicy cheeseburgers on a propane grill.
    Joe Difazio, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
  • European leaders have messed it up in the last three years.
    Peter Aitken, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Fans were still bummed that he was reassigned to minor-league camp.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 17 Mar. 2025
  • For more on Nintendo Switch 2, check out our Switch 2 game wishlist and learn why we’ll be bummed if Switch 2 lacks these features.
    Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • This should tell you everything about how trifling these lists are.
    Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The scorers of eight goals, while giving up a trifling one.
    Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2024
Verb
  • Instead, season three of The White Lotus dawdles too long, trying to save too much of the good stuff for the end.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Past Republican presidents were content to dawdle on tax cuts and entitlement reform, but Trump, understanding that the values of America are communicated through its art and entertainment, has instead sought to impose his fairly common and generally decent tastes on popular culture.
    Peter Tonguette, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • That was probably a terrible decision, in fairness, but Meazza responded by faking a shot to fool a defender, then teed up Piola to score.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
  • While the towering shoes may seem intimidating, don’t let their large, often chunky heels fool you: PLatform shoes are among the most comfortable heels in any wardrobe.
    Nina Derwin, Glamour, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • About 73 percent of respondents say that rangefinders capable of lazing targets beyond 1,000 yards align with fair-chase considerations and support their use in hunting.
    Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 10 Jan. 2025
  • And if that interest is lazing by the beach, transfers to local beach clubs will be offered as well.
    Laurie Werner, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025

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“Piddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piddle. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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