{
  "piddling":{
    "antonyms":[
      "big",
      "consequential",
      "considerable",
      "important",
      "material",
      "significant"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": trivial , paltry":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "He was paid a piddling amount of money.",
      "raised one final, piddling objection to the plan",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Then, the pandemic reduced the schedule to 60 games and Eddie got a piddling 37%. \u2014 Star Tribune , 3 Dec. 2020",
      "Millions of additional claims are expected to stream in from around the country over the coming weeks, while hiring remains piddling . \u2014 Patricia Cohen, New York Times , 23 Apr. 2020",
      "What\u2019s particularly baffling is that Syria now produces a piddling amount of oil\u2014about as much as Utah. \u2014 Robin Wright, The New Yorker , 30 Oct. 2019",
      "That will make the current economic uncertainty look piddling . \u2014 Daniel W. Drezner, Twin Cities , 15 Aug. 2019",
      "In the battle for mind share, in the Trumpian quest to be part of every conversation, the Pixel far outweighs its piddling sales. \u2014 Vlad Savov, The Verge , 16 Oct. 2018",
      "Of those, only four rather piddling victories went the liberals\u2019 way. \u2014 The Economist , 30 June 2018",
      "Learning about other runners' struggles and triumphs helps put my piddling run into a bigger narrative, often allowing me to see myself differently within another story. \u2014 Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News , 21 June 2018",
      "How to: Improve the Wi-Fi reception in your home The most-improved was Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, which went from a piddling 2.68 Mbps download speed in 2017 to 59.62 Mbps this year. \u2014 Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle , 12 June 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1559, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8pi-d\u1d4al-\u0259n",
      "\u02c8pid-l\u0259n",
      "-i\u014b",
      "-li\u014b"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "chicken",
      "de minimis",
      "footling",
      "inconsequential",
      "inconsiderable",
      "insignificant",
      "measly",
      "Mickey Mouse",
      "minute",
      "negligible",
      "niggling",
      "no-account",
      "nominal",
      "paltry",
      "peanut",
      "petty",
      "picayune",
      "piddly",
      "piffling",
      "pimping",
      "slight",
      "trifling",
      "trivial"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115551",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "piddly":{
    "antonyms":[
      "big",
      "consequential",
      "considerable",
      "important",
      "material",
      "significant"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": trivial , piddling":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "I don't want to argue about piddly details.",
      "there's only a piddly difference in price between the two paintings, so take whichever you prefer",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Byrne is still a United States congressman and that\u2019s no piddly thing. \u2014 Kyle Whitmire, al , 7 Nov. 2019",
      "This information isn't written in the controller's piddly instruction manual. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 16 Nov. 2018",
      "After Kilauea's 1924 summit explosions, the volcano entered a decade of piddly rumblings, followed by 18 years of silence. \u2014 Sophia Yan And Malcolm Ritter, The Christian Science Monitor , 7 June 2018",
      "But sometimes self-denial is its own form of power, as you are no doubt noticing, crammed into that piddly apartment. \u2014 Helaine Olen, Slate Magazine , 25 Jan. 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1946, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8pid-l\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "chicken",
      "de minimis",
      "footling",
      "inconsequential",
      "inconsiderable",
      "insignificant",
      "measly",
      "Mickey Mouse",
      "minute",
      "negligible",
      "niggling",
      "no-account",
      "nominal",
      "paltry",
      "peanut",
      "petty",
      "picayune",
      "piddling",
      "piffling",
      "pimping",
      "slight",
      "trifling",
      "trivial"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003509",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "piddler":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": one that piddles : trifler , putterer":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-d(\u1d4a)l\u0259(r)"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-190228"
  }
}