fiddling

Meanings

Verb

• avoid (one's assigned duties)
• commit fraud and steal from one's employer
  • "We found out that she had been fiddling for years"
• play the violin or fiddle
• play on a violin
• manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
• play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
• try to fix or mend

Adjective Satellite

• (informal) small and of little importance
  • "a fiddling sum of money"

Synonyms

diddle, fiddle, footling, goldbrick, lilliputian, little, monkey, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, play, shirk, shrink from, tamper, tinker, toy, trivial