Diddle in a sentence as a verb

I think I'll try to diddle around with some z-index and CSS stuff to get it working.

Alpha is free to "diddle" with, but you can't do anything of substance with it, unless you pay for that privilege.

You'd likely be better off writing an actual DSP engine in C than trying to diddle with frequencies in this way.

They'd sit there, diddle on their laptops or phones, and then get cranky and exasperated when you'd tell them, "no, sorry...there are no slides.

Prank aircraft pilots, share tedious banalities and diddle butts.

Isn't the real issue that in order to be vulnerable to this, you have to be running as a user who has permission to diddle with the hosts file?

To my incredible surprise, the guy answered with an angry rant, trowing all kind of threats and accusations, and claiming that I was trying to diddle him.

Its more like "look through endless manuals for ill-described OS features and diddle with them black-box style until you find out how they really work, then stitch them together.

Microsoft still supports DDE in the OS in part because there were so many programs written that used it to diddle with Excel workbooks--and Excel is an optional package.

Can we now talk about the reality of a covid-diagnosed President walking around in public without a mask?Or does someone want to diddle and play and parse with words again?

[2] If Microsoft shipped Windows with a VB4 IDE, there would be programs, even today, wanting to go in and diddle with that IDE over COM to "programmatically" generate another program.

Debugging a serial protocol takes time to set up the line monitor, run the tests, validate the behavior against the spec, diddle the state machine to bring it into conformance.

Chargebacks and other forms of manual intervention allow a third party to diddle with the business of two transacting parties on the instruction of a single one of them and some idea/law/regulation about what is 'right'.

Diddle definitions

verb

deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

verb

manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination; "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate"

See also: fiddle play