| 单词 | piddling |
| 例句 | If you could have seen him . . . piddling every five minutes during the night. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Identical twins—but not in piddling twos and threes as in the old vivip-arous days, when an egg would sometimes accidentally divide; actually by dozens, by scores at a time. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing else to do with their lives, piddling away their lives. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Another time he tried a new variety—Rainiers—that wouldn’t take because he used too much nitrogen: lots of green, plants high and fluffy, but small hard fruit, a piddling harvest. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Dragons don’t mess with your piddling free will. Pah! Listen to me, boy.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z But he said he fully intended to spend at least some of his retirement piddling. Southern Journal: The Fine Art of Piddling 2012-01-04T16:50:02.180Z It is hard to explain to begin with, because piddling is neither one thing or another, but something in between. Southern Journal: The Fine Art of Piddling 2012-01-04T16:50:02.180Z Remove that middling, piddling beat, one of the few concessions to modernity, from Black Market Red Roses and it could be a Gilbert O'Sullivan song. New band of the day – Luke White (No 1,336) 2012-08-22T15:23:00Z Dean, of course, is terrified of heights and tries to act all manly while piddling in his pull ups. On The Bachelorette, Rachel Looks For A Man Who Can Spell 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z That is, art prices can crash only as one piddling consequence of a planetary catastrophe. A Fearful Frenzy: The Art Market Now 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z The movie’s piddling, perfunctory ending — its only major weakness — lets Jenny off the hook after another lapse. ‘Happy Christmas’ Stars Anna Kendrick 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z A minor local celebrity who believes himself destined for much better things, he resents his piddling assignment to report on the Groundhog Day celebration in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Stuck inside your home this Groundhog Day? Be like Phil the weatherman, and try some mindfulness 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Amazon offers a piddling 5 percent discount for a season pass, while iTunes will knock off as much as a quarter of the price. Cut the cord: A guide to free TV 2010-08-26T14:30:00Z I couldn't believe it when the numbers came in and my dad got a piddling 365 votes and the Tory got more. Election memories 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Doing a load of laundry is, of course, not piddling. Southern Journal: The Fine Art of Piddling 2012-01-04T16:50:02.180Z Then they doled out a piddling 17/30. Dancing with the Stars Watch: It’s A Pants-Off Dance-Off 2013-04-30T09:45:40Z Once upon a time, shipping a load of professional chefs into a TV studio together would have been a recipe for shouting and diva tantrums and endless tiresome piddling contests. Is The Great British Menu the effing end of the rude television chef? 2012-06-08T14:13:30Z “I’m this piddling producer guy, and Tommy’s giving me a bear hug, and I felt important,” he says. A final seating for the man who knew every D.C. power player’s favorite table 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z “This is a piddling amount of money — nobody can claim the city is in a slump,” Mr. Polshek said. Shaping a Plaza’s Next Century 2013-06-24T22:42:48Z Marty’s undoing begins when he is handed some undeliverable mortgage-related checks for piddling amounts and instructed to comb the phone book to try to find the clients’ addresses and then mail the checks. Review: In ‘Buzzard,’ an Angry, Unkempt Antihero 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z We loved her when she was open and raw, giving unflinchingly monologues on small stages she often ran onto, with piddling crowds she had to win over. Goodbye to "Mrs. Maisel": You were almost briefly, marvelous 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z To spackle a hole in plain sight would be necessary and therefore illegal under piddling guidelines. Southern Journal: The Fine Art of Piddling 2012-01-04T16:50:02.180Z Dr. David Sloan, a venerated college professor who worked across the hall from me, seemed one of the least piddling men I ever knew. Southern Journal: The Fine Art of Piddling 2012-01-04T16:50:02.180Z And we're not talking about piddling little phobias like my fear of snakes, which made me probably the only person in the world to squeal all the way through Anaconda. Agora pressed my big phobia button 2010-04-22T17:17:00Z In the real world this is a piddling little magazine that nobody cares about. The Lady and the Revamp and Storyville: Kings of Pastry | TV Review 2010-03-19T06:45:00Z Going to a baseball game is not piddling. Southern Journal: The Fine Art of Piddling 2012-01-04T16:50:02.180Z The whole idea of piddling is to kill time, but without any great effort at all, or even really meaning to. Southern Journal: The Fine Art of Piddling 2012-01-04T16:50:02.180Z It has some work to do on packaging, but that’s a piddling task in light of what it has just accomplished. Critic?s Notebook: Bolshoi Theater Gala on Live HD Broadcast 2011-10-29T00:57:28Z Such work is necessary, and the more necessary a labor is, the farther from piddling it becomes. Southern Journal: The Fine Art of Piddling 2012-01-04T16:50:02.180Z The fact that something as piddling as a bacon sneak preview is a matter of federal concern is funny for the same reason it’s funny to see a monkey dressed in a suit. Pet Walruses, Hidden Bacon and Other Violations of Actual U.S. Law 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Art, luckily, mattered more than the piddling strictures of the law, and Muybridge was acquitted. Eadweard Muybridge 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z It also would have reduced Hiroshima and Nagasaki to a piddling afterthought; Nolan treats them instead as a profound absence, an indictment by silence. ‘Oppenheimer’ doesn’t show us Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's an act of rigor, not erasure 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z You would hate for a piddling matter such as Augusta weather to get in the way of that. Amateur Sam Bennett on the Masters leader board? You’ve got to be kidding. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z President Biden himself called on De León, a piddling City Council member, to step down, but he paid no attention. Column: George Santos is trying to pull a De León. Will either of them get away with it? 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z And if a piddling portion of materials are covered by attorney-client privilege, there’s no need to halt the investigation as a whole to identify them. Opinion | There’s a fair compromise on the Mar-a-Lago special master’s review 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Now, if only all the leftover crowns were converted to much more useful Show-Bucks currency instead of the piddling Kudos rewards that are mostly used on basic items. Update for Fall Guys fixes PS5 parties and Switch animations 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Then came Ryan, traded by the Falcons on Monday for a piddling third-round draft pick after the NFL team’s clumsy attempt to line up his successor at quarterback blew up in its face. Gut punch for the A-T-L: Freeman, Ryan both depart 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z The piddling, isolated incidents that maybe happened here? Opinion | The ‘Disney’ for Boomers Puts Hedonism on Full Display 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z There are few targets riper for satire than the customs and conventions of affluent suburbanites, and yet only a piddling handful of pop-culture parodies go for the jugular with the requisite precision or salutary bloodlust. Review | Season 3 of ‘You’ is its best yet, thanks to its true horrors: Marriage and suburbia 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z By putting up such a piddling sum, I was all but dooming the coin. Going for Broke in Cryptoland 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The ongoing cost of policing the Taliban is piddling compared with the costs in national security that will accrue from a hostile Taliban-ruled nation. Opinion | Is Leaving Afghanistan the Right Move? 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z In January, Hogan called on schools to reopen for hybrid instruction by March 1, but these five districts are taking until mid-April or later to return all students for a piddling few days a week. Opinion | Maryland’s education crisis worsens every day students are out of school 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z And their encounters with police — over piddling, nonviolent offenses — ended in their deaths. Opinion | Remember these words whenever anyone tells you policing is colorblind 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z Adding insult to injury, the Trumpistas’ solitary victory was a piddling, technical one that affected just a tiny number of ballots, nowhere near enough to change the result. Opinion | Trump’s last-ditch effort to steal the election is the biggest farce of all 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Expectations for economic growth and inflation are the crucial drivers of interest rates, and such low rates very likely mean investors expect a long period of piddling growth. We Have Crossed the Line Debt Hawks Warned Us About for Decades 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z But millions of additional claims are still expected to stream in from around the country over the next month, while hiring remains piddling. Jobless Numbers Are ‘Eye-Watering’ but Understate the Crisis 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z By a quirk of British law, Davis has to pay the prince for the privilege of living on his land, piddling as the checks may be. Harry and Meghan’s Big Funding Source Is Private. Sort of. 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z What’s particularly baffling is that Syria now produces a piddling amount of oil—about as much as Utah. Trump’s Baffling Plan to Pillage Syria’s Oil 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z I heard one such woman talking on Radio 4’s Today programme in a four-minute slot that was allotted to the piddling issue of women’s bits. It’s not women’s menopausal bodies that need ‘fixing’ but society’s attitude to them | Suzanne Moore 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z “It’s a piddling amount for the problem at hand,” tweeted Alex Howe, co-chair of the Northern Virginia branch of the Democratic Socialists of America. Amazon donates $3 million for Arlington housing, backs new computer degree at NOVA and GMU 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z How did a case that consumed so many years of effort, with a team of its finest experts working on a signature mission, produce such a piddling result for the IRS? The IRS tried to take on the ultrawealthy. It didn’t go well. 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Mau spent about 10 years piddling in his workshop, sometimes laying stone or tile for friends, he said. Sacrifice required but worthwhile to live in small town 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z For the same reason, I keep a laptop in the living room for piddling around, a desktop computer in my home office for doing serious work and a Kindle for reading books. Why ‘Fred’ Is the Best Friend of Economics Writers 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Of those, only four rather piddling victories went the liberals’ way. Justice Kennedy is retiring. What happens now? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z All things considered, the settlement was a piddling sum. For Lance Armstrong, Backing Down Might Have Hurt More Than Paying $5 Million 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Unused credit on loyalty cards may seem piddling by comparison, but some longtime Tully’s customers say they’re upset. Before Stormy Daniels, her attorney faced allegations of dubious business dealings 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z The first experiment to be built to look for it in the mine that now hosts Super-Kamiokande was called KamiokaNDE, and used a piddling 3,000 tonnes of water for the purposes of detection. Fundamental physics is frustrating physicists 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Let us take seriously Zeigler’s justification, which is consistent with Moore’s view that “God’s laws are always superior to man’s laws,” and the Bible stands above the Constitution and other piddling laws of man. Opinion | Roy Moore and Republicans, taking the Bible literally but not seriously 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Especially for these relatively piddling amounts of money. Rick Pitino and the adults, maybe, but give players a break 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z No one wants to plod through a puddle of someone else’s waste, but renegade piddling is more than just gross; it’s dangerous. Perspective | The No. 1 problem for football fans? Finding a bathroom. 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Consumers also have piddling rights over how Equifax may continue to use their credit data. Seriously, Equifax? Why the Credit Agency’s Breach Means Regulation Is Needed 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z It may be “piddling around,” but Rex doesn’t plan to stop his artistic pursuits any time soon. Utah man turns trash — combs, bottle caps — into art 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z But ultimately his presence, like Gershon’s, is a distraction, raising questions about how two accomplished actors ended up in something so piddling. Thriller 'Inconceivable' wastes Gina Gershon and Nicolas Cage in creaky throwback 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Idaho received a total of $822,000 from the NEA last year, which was distributed to projects flung across the rural state, often in amounts the state arts chief called “piddling but priceless”. 'It’s diabolical': arts programs under threat as Trump aims to slash funds 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Sans TV, evenings seemed longer: I got more chores or work done, spent time piddling on the Internet or read. Perspective | I gave up TV, then qualified for Olympic marathon trials and got my PhD 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z "I'm on a Facebook bereavement page, piddling around," she wrote in one post. Helen Bailey: A life shaped by death - BBC News 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z That is a piddling controversy compared with his claim that the election system overseen by the states is somehow riddled with fraud. Trump’s voter fraud claims undermine the democratic process and his presidency 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Melvin tried factory work, didn’t like it and, having spent his childhood piddling on the four acres the family used to raise chickens and hogs on the side, decided agricultural life was his to have. Thousands of Indiana properties in same family 100 years 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z “The Gestapo was piddling compared with the size and reach of surveillance equipment and operations today,” says Mazower. Should we even go there? Historians on comparing fascism to Trumpism 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z He is not interested in anyone’s piddling attempts to score the basketball. N.B.A. Schedule: Here’s What to Watch This Week 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Treasuries and the government securities of other advanced economies, is earning piddling rates of return. In ‘Gaining Currency,’ a Look at China’s Global Ambitions for Its Money 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z And even that piddling percentage, achieved by few restaurants, is under assault from all sides. The Thrill of Losing Money by Investing in a Manhattan Restaurant 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z For a moment, we can forget that life itself is often third and long … that the mortgage is due, that the college fund is piddling, or that the dog has run off with the cat. Let the cheering begin. Football, the great American blast time, is finally back. 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Few people would ever aspire to live on government assistance because it is demeaning and a piddling amount, but it is addicting. Georgia editorial roundup 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z With Trump as party ringleader rather than piddling rebel, the GOP hierarchy has inverted. Some Republicans buck (and duck) Trump 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z A pugnacious Nick Clegg really got the Remain side going when he accused outers of behaving as if Britain was just “a piddling little island”, always being bullied by Brussels. Oh no we’re not – the clapometer says Brexit in the Guardian’s live debate | Katherine Butler 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z The $9 million was a piddling smidgen of a fraction of the federal budget, as is the $5 million wool and mohair subsidy. America’s barnacled budget 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z This week marked their latest failed attempt to reach a piddling goal: the relocation of 40,000 asylum-seekers from Italy and Greece, which are groaning under record arrivals, across most of the EU’s other members. The birth-pangs of a policy 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Income from sources like philanthropy, events and the shop and cafe provide "piddling amounts" compared with admissions income, she continued. Council cuts put free museum entry in doubt - BBC News 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Old-fashioned carpooling was set up for passengers to reimburse a driver for just gas and wear and tear, a piddling bit of change per mile. How Uber and Lyft Are Trying to Solve America's Carpooling Problem 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z As seen in cellphone video footage recorded by an onlooker, Garner was puzzled that the officers seemed to be taking him into custody for such a piddling offense. The Eric Garner case’s sickening outcome And they have a hard time believing that we care about such a piddling thing as keeping our own bodies. Useful objects : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z If realized, that would be substantially more than the piddling grassroots effort that Clinton mounted against Obama six years ago. The (Not Very) Quiet Campaign for Hillary Clinton 2014-03-12T09:40:52Z For those keeping score at home, that sharply outpaces inflation, which was a piddling 1.7 percent last year. DealBook: In Shareholder Say-on-Pay Votes, More Whispers Than Shouts 2013-06-26T16:15:32Z Buyers of the 10-year Treasury are agreeing to lend Uncle Sam money for a decade and receive a piddling interest payment of 1.5 percent. The basics of owning bonds 2012-07-20T21:05:00Z But his “what’s the big deal?” expression seemed to shrug off the problem as a piddling price to pay for a virtuous lifestyle. Hasidic Jews in Heavy Dress Bear Up in Summer’s Heat 2012-06-29T02:57:02Z But it beats the piddling 0.06 percent for the average interest-bearing checking account. Bucks Blog: Seeking 2% in Interest? Try a High-Yield Checking Account 2012-05-24T21:00:56Z Miami’s pursuit of Manning got an interesting side note when the Dolphins traded receiver Brandon Marshall to the Bears for the piddling sum of two third-round draft picks. The Quad: Leading Off: First Four Gives Madness a Whirl 2012-03-14T14:48:05Z There is progress, he writes, but “in the grand scheme of things, all that recent progress still seems piddling and feeble when measured against what is needed.” Green Blog: The Quest for 'Hydricity' 2012-02-21T14:51:23Z But if Senate dysfunction is truly as bad as Reid says it is -- and in my view, it's much, much worse -- stopping with the piddling rules change Democrats attempted last week is downright irresponsible. Wonkbook: Occupy the Senate! 2011-10-11T11:37:32Z Never mind all that piddling misogyny; what about the implicit suggestion that Jonathan Foreigner couldn't cope with Jonathan Walters? Why wet, windy Stoke has the answer to everything 2011-07-29T21:54:01Z “We’re not going to accept a piddling reform and say that it’s a victory.” Legislature Still at Odds Over Cuomo?s Top Issues 2011-06-21T02:16:35Z Meanwhile, the average rate of GDP growth in the United States since World War II has been a piddling 3.1 percent. Tim Pawlenty's silly China envy 2011-06-14T16:24:00Z Only three counties managed a profit – a piddling profit, too – whereas the Test match counties revealed large losses. Counties geared up for a tough season that will be all about survival 2011-04-08T07:17:29Z The world golf championships have neither the history or the prestige of the majors but in the grander scheme of golf they are not piddling affairs. Luke Donald digs in to challenge at Doral going into final round 2011-03-13T00:16:39Z "Twenty cents each for those piddling little plants?" The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z If this sounds rather piddling by the standards of, say. Olivia Munn: Queen of the Uncool 2010-08-12T21:00:00Z I feared I wasn’t building any equity in my business but, rather, just piddling away hours. Think Twice About Buying Commercial Real Estate 2010-07-27T12:49:00Z Yet the person in front of you is withdrawing a piddling amount of cash. Is Nationwide's ?100 minimum withdrawal fair? 2010-04-16T23:06:00Z Couples was piddling along with a 1-over round through 14 holes, which knocked him three strokes off Westwood's blistering early pace. Westwood Takes The Lead 2010-04-08T00:00:00Z He is currently being quite coy about whether he wants a government role, which is probably code for not wanting a piddling little job as a junior trade minister. If a man called Dave should call about some Goats ? 2010-04-06T19:12:00Z That ignorance is one reason the U.S. government devotes comparatively piddling resources to its prevention, tracking and control. 2010-01-27T17:45:00Z Ungrateful Shebbear! indolent Smollett! trifling Johnson! piddling Goldsmith! how little have they contributed to the glory of a period in which all arts, all sciences are encouraged and rewarded! The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 Your piddling reproductive customs have no application on my plane of existence. The Reluctant Weapon And every company in the Galaxy, be it monstrous huge or piddling small, made a mad rush to be first on the scene. Conquest Over Time Here I was prepared to remove the drug scourge forever, and at a piddling cost. Revenge Let children, when they versify, stick here And there, these piddling words for want of matter. Spare Hours Judging from the few piddling regulations and restrictions referred to in extracts already cited, the Virginia lawmakers could see no need for intensive or even active supervision of the Tidewater fisheries. The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia But I don’t like to go to them about this piddling business to-morrow. The Goose Man Why, this sun and these worlds are piddling trifles. Hunters Out of Space They simply sat around, doing nothing but watch their screens and keep their few, piddling records. Final Weapon Except for the portions reserved for the two cooks, there was not a crumb of piddling left. The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp You write that Court says that a man who has occupied his position in the world naturally can’t cheapen himself by stepping down into any little piddling job where he’d have to do undignified things. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." He'd have to go back to little things, to the little ships that hauled piddling cargo between little planets, while all the grandeur of the stars belonged to the Lhari. The Colors of Space There were not merely a little piddling dish of salad, a bite of cake, and a dab of ice-cream. A Certain Rich Man I'm through letting dad pay me for piddling around here. Class of '29 It is regrettable, though it was perhaps historically inevitable, that this pioneer of English literary scholarship should have been tagged "piddling Theobald" by Pope and crowned the first king of The Dunciad. Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) It was thus that a woman struck … or a piddling official … or a mob bent on humiliation. Broken to the Plow He is still unmarried and resides at the Clara White Mission, Jacksonville, Florida, where he receives a email salary for the piddling jobs about the place that he is able to do. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives How is it possible, woman, in the awful and magnificent times we live in, to be preoccupied exclusively with the piddling? U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1974 January - June There are lots of loafers and piddling projects,--but the government's also doing some big jobs, some real construction work. Class of '29 Against the world's great man Lift their low calumny and sneering cries The Pharisaic multitude, the host Of piddling slanderers whose little eyes Know not what greatness is and never can. Poems Hey, my masters, turn from piddling to the turmoil and the strife! The Certain Hour Pope calls him "piddling" because of his scrupulous attention to details. The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems There was also a sufficiency of piddling with unsavoury matters to insure the suffrage of schoolgirls. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking But you have not finished? you are piddling away still! The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 With this he left us piddling; then within a quarter of an hour came back, and told us the pope-hawk is now to be seen. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 There was no piddling or peddling about this at any rate. Castle Richmond I hope at least that robbery on the highway will go out of fashion as too piddling a profession for gentlemen. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 A certain great Fortune and piddling Genius, whose Fame has been trumpeted so loudly, has given a silly Cast to our whole Doings. The Eve of the Revolution; a chronicle of the breach with England Accustomed to deep stakes in the game of political hazard, they despised his piddling play. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 But to dribble away life in exchanging bits of painted pasteboard round a green table for the piddling concern of a few shillings, can only be excused in folly or superannuation. Chronicles of the Canongate |
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