piddling

How To Use piddling In A Sentence

• Neither of us was even slightly the worse for wear as we both have the body weight to adsorb such a piddling amount of alcohol. What was Althouse drinking?
• Musicians cynically note the gigantic tax abatements the city offers to high tech firms, as compared with the piddling sums it is willing to invest in its pool of thousands of young artists.
• I suppose I should do something sensible like invest some of this money for when I get back, if one can invest the piddling sums I'll have left after setting holiday and beer-in-England money aside.
• After all, he dislikes being called ‘man's best friend’ and getting blamed for piddling on a fire-hydrant not to mention someone's parade.
• It's annoying to have to get authorization for spending such piddling amounts of money.
• We're not talking about the kind of piddling savings that comes from giving up your twice-a-week Starbucks Retirement Catch-Up: How To Start In Your 50s
• I'm not talking about the piddling few hundred thousand salary and couple of million pay-off a fat-cat boss gets for destroying a company in record time and sacking all its workers.
• And I think that they should have given her a bigger fine than $30,000, which seems an awful piddling fine to me.
• In the higher reaches of the football world the amounts at issue would seem piddling, small change, barely a week's wages for a half - decent player at a senior club.
• Yes, it may only be a piddling little thing, compared with the potential threat to human rights represented by introduction of ID cards, and the suspension of habeas corpus.