Definition of "fiddling" []

• Trivial; petty. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Dr Patrick, who researched the subject for a PhD, said: The academics call this ‘gaming’ but front line police officers would call it fiddling the figures, massaging the books or, the current favourite term, ‘good housekeeping’."
• "A great way of digital fiddling is tuning my blog."
• "The long action gives me a bit more flexibility in fiddling with OAL and my never-ending quest for smaller groups."