Associations to the word «Niggling»

Wiktionary

NIGGLING, verb. Present participle of niggle
NIGGLING, adjective. Petty
NIGGLING, noun. A sensation that niggles.

Dictionary definition

NIGGLING, adjective. (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne