Piddling in a sentence as an adjective

And by top dollar, we're not talking piddling six figure salaries.

Allen didn't invest in the research for the piddling $10 million prize.

They get a really piddling amount of traffic, more than they used to but really, really piddling.

The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate.

The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate.\n--end quote--

And IMO that's fine for piddling around and experimentation.

No, you didn't, because before that, he'd have somewhere around 40 piddling years of copyright protection.

That kind of thing is absolutely the norm for any mythology -- Marvel is a fairly piddling effort by comparison.

There are many reasons this could be my fault, not the least of which is that I'm not a drummer.- Chapman Stick knockoff: I was never able to get beyond just piddling around on this thing.

Then there's the Dirac equation in electrodynamics. And then quantum electrodynamics. And before I knew it the whole business that I got the Nobel prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate.

I occasionally overhear ludicrous conversations where an 'idea' person, with a lame idea, is trying to find a 'tech' person for some piddling share of the equity.

Gender inequality is a real and important issue, but that does not mean that people writing code have to accept pull requests from busybodies piddling around with pronouns in comments.

Along with this, I'm considering the Thinkpad X1 Carbon or the Samsung Series 9 -- they're all advertised as lightweight, powerful, and with more vertical resolution than the usual piddling 768px.

One might as well suggest that developers should just stop piddling about with software and learn to build their own hardware instead of pursuing the massively wasteful path of general-purpose computing.

Extremely productive in everything they do and never piddling away on something just out of intellectual curiosity.

They mandate Waterfall or Scrum because other people use it, and they believe incorrect decisiveness is better than endless vacillating trials and experimentation for a piddling, measly, single-digit-percentage gain in efficiency.

If you're paying me approximately market rates and a piddling amount of common shares that are bound to be diluted away to nothing, sorry but you're going to have to do much better than that if you expect me to negatively impact my overall quality of life to any degree.

Piddling definitions

adjective

(informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"