Fiddling and Minute

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Fiddling adjective - Lacking importance.

Usage example: you should delegate these fiddling matters to your staff so that you can focus on more important issues

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Minute and fiddling are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Minute" instead an adjective "Fiddling".

Nearby Words: fiddle, fiddled, fiddly, fiddler

Minute adjective - Lacking importance.

Usage example: a person who wastes her time on the most minute aspects of everyday life

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Fiddling and minute are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fiddling" instead an adjective "Minute".

Nearby Words: minutely, minuteness, minuted, minuting

A minute later, while Ian is meeting Nick van Owen, Eddie is fiddling with the phone and starts banging it.

Source: Film / The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Matt's encounter with a journalist who lost a friend in Kosovo leaves him feeling like his band, with its three-minute pop songs, is "fiddling while Rome is burning down".

Source: Music / Sixpence None The Richer

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