Fiddling
Minor
Minor adjective - Lacking importance.
Usage example: only a minor detail, which we can easily disregard for the moment
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
-
In any enterprise, there's always a bit of minor account fiddling, while the more criminally-inclined may resort to cooking the books.
-
A particularly cruel example: in the episode "Timeslides", a bit of minor fiddling with time restores Rimmer to life.
Source: Yank the Dog's Chain -
I'm mad about you baby...Quite simply, a Dom Com airing on NBC from 1992-99, about a married couple with a Seinfeld-esque interest in meaningless conversations and minor fiddling events over big important ones.
Source: Series / Mad About You
Cite this Source
Minor and Fiddling. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fiddling/minor
Fiddling & Minor. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/fiddling/minor>.
Minor or Fiddling. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/fiddling/minor.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "fiddling" and "minor" have occurred on timeline