- present participle of piddle.
piddling
Example Sentences
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It’s exciting as spectacle, but on the substance every element of the preceding sentence is piddling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
It also would have reduced Hiroshima and Nagasaki to a piddling afterthought; Nolan treats them instead as a profound absence, an indictment by silence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
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.
From Salon ● May 27, 2023
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.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022
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.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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