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piddly
adjective
informaldisapprovinguk /ˈpɪd.əl.i/ us /ˈpɪd.əl.i/
very small or not important: 琐碎的；无关紧要的，微不足道的
The piddly attendances at the club's home matches bring in hardly any money at all.
Your annual bonus makes my whole salary sound piddly.
We fished all day but only caught a few piddly creatures.
The government seems to think we will all be satisfied with a piddly tax cut.
They always manage to put on interesting shows, even with the piddliest of budgets.
I don't think it is worth travelling all that way just to see a couple of piddly indie bands.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Of little or less importance
be in/under someone's shadowidiom
be neither here nor thereidiom
big deal
biggie
derisory
marginal
meaningless
meaninglessly
meaninglessness
mere
picayune
picture
piddling
piffling
play second fiddleidiom
unserious
unseriousness
venial
vestigial
vestigially
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