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{
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"piddling":{
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"antonyms":[
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"big",
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"consequential",
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"considerable",
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"important",
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"material",
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"significant"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": trivial , paltry":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"He was paid a piddling amount of money.",
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"raised one final, piddling objection to the plan",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Then, the pandemic reduced the schedule to 60 games and Eddie got a piddling 37%. \u2014 Star Tribune , 3 Dec. 2020",
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"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",
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"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",
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"That will make the current economic uncertainty look piddling . \u2014 Daniel W. Drezner, Twin Cities , 15 Aug. 2019",
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"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",
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"Of those, only four rather piddling victories went the liberals\u2019 way. \u2014 The Economist , 30 June 2018",
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"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",
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"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"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1559, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8pi-d\u1d4al-\u0259n",
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"\u02c8pid-l\u0259n",
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"-i\u014b",
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"-li\u014b"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"chicken",
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"de minimis",
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"footling",
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"inconsequential",
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"inconsiderable",
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"insignificant",
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"measly",
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"Mickey Mouse",
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"minute",
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"negligible",
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"niggling",
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"no-account",
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"nominal",
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"paltry",
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"peanut",
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"petty",
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"picayune",
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"piddly",
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"piffling",
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"pimping",
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"slight",
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"trifling",
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"trivial"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115551",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
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},
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"piddly":{
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"antonyms":[
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"big",
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"consequential",
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"considerable",
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"important",
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"material",
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"significant"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": trivial , piddling":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"I don't want to argue about piddly details.",
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"there's only a piddly difference in price between the two paintings, so take whichever you prefer",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Byrne is still a United States congressman and that\u2019s no piddly thing. \u2014 Kyle Whitmire, al , 7 Nov. 2019",
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"This information isn't written in the controller's piddly instruction manual. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 16 Nov. 2018",
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"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",
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"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"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1946, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8pid-l\u0113"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"chicken",
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"de minimis",
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"footling",
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"inconsequential",
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"inconsiderable",
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"insignificant",
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"measly",
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"Mickey Mouse",
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"minute",
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"negligible",
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"niggling",
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"no-account",
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"nominal",
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"paltry",
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"peanut",
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"petty",
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"picayune",
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"piddling",
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"piffling",
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"pimping",
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"slight",
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"trifling",
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"trivial"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-003509",
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"type":[
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"adjective"
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]
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},
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"piddler":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": one that piddles : trifler , putterer":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"-d(\u1d4a)l\u0259(r)"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{},
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"first_known_use":{},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-190228"
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}
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} |