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Adjectives
1. (adj.) fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial;
  - (informal) small and of little importance;
  - “a fiddling sum of money”; “a footling gesture”; “our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war”; “a little (or small) matter”; “a dispute over niggling details”; “limited to petty enterprises”; “piffling efforts”; “giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction”;

2. (adj.) superficial, trivial;
  - of little substance or significance;
  - “a few superficial editorial changes”; “only trivial objections”;

3. (adj.) trivial;
  - concerned with trivialities;
  - “a trivial young woman”; “a trivial mind”;

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