niggle

All this time I’d harbored the little niggling thought that he hadn’t trusted me.

If a player feels a niggle, he is told to rest.

She arrived carrying a slight niggle, and a minor injury that kept her out of October's England camp has slowed her progress.

Rogers has impressed under Tuchel, starting five and featuring in all eight of the games the German has managed - though a hamstring niggle could give Bellingham the opportunity to start against Serbia.

There was, however, a niggling problem: The running premiums on these insurance contracts ate into the short-term returns of Howie’s group.