fiddling

Cassiopeia asked Alexander, who was already fiddling with his compass.

As I sat at the kitchen table still fiddling with my oatmeal, I couldn’t get my brother Charlie out of my mind.

That means any game made for PC is going to work here - even if it takes a bit of fiddling to make it run properly.

Updike stuck up for himself when faced with the magazine’s intrusively correct fiddling: In 1958 he sent one editor, William Maxwell, an unwavering paragraph against a single word.

Beckett was famously unforgiving when it came to fiddling with his works; his estate would not likely countenance egregious diversions from the “Godot” text.