niggly
Adjective
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Adjective
niggly
- bad-tempered, especially about trivial details.
- trivial, insignificant
- 2003, Michael Morpurgo - Kensuke's Kingdom [http://books.google.com/books?id=bqyGBOJejNoC&pg=PA5&dq=niggly&lr=&sig=Xs2OLG9djxgVX8bFv2ee8ESUgxw#PPP15,M1 page 5]
- They'd argue a lot, about little niggly things — and they had never been like that.
- 1994, Douglas R. Graves - Life Drawing in Charcoal ↗ page 153 ↗
- You soon discover there isn't time (nor is there any need) to put in the niggly details. The essence of the pose is its attitude or action and a hint of the model.
- 2003, Michael Morpurgo - Kensuke's Kingdom [http://books.google.com/books?id=bqyGBOJejNoC&pg=PA5&dq=niggly&lr=&sig=Xs2OLG9djxgVX8bFv2ee8ESUgxw#PPP15,M1 page 5]
- pernickety, paying too much attention to small details.
- 2003, Michael Palin - Sahara page 16
- Now things are less confrontational but just as niggly. The Spanish examine drivers' papers with elaborate care, causing huge traffic jams
- 2003, Michael Palin - Sahara page 16
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