Definition of "piddling" [pid•dling]

• So trifling or trivial as to be beneath one's consideration. (adjective)

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• "Most wine retails for less than $20, but even if your resources can best be described as piddling, Christmas is not the time for sending Aunt Kate a $7.95 Romanian chardonnay."
• "We're not talking about the kind of piddling savings that comes from giving up your twice-a-week Starbucks"
• "It's also work that Michael Behe called "piddling", despite the fact that it directly addresses the claims of irreducible complexity."