piddling

The Tigers threw off two decades of middling-to-piddling seasons and made folk heroes out of Pudge Rodríguez and Magglio Ordóñez, with right-handed phenom Justin Verlander representing the future.

Millions of other Americans will lament they live in cities with strapped budgets that throw piddling BBQs and hand out sparklers.

These are the types of scenarios that would make the current catastrophe in Sendai look piddling by comparison.

Still, I have never forgotten that in my youth, I thought the difference between life and death was piddling.

We were kind of piddling around, and I kind of walked off ahead of him.

There are lots of loafers and piddling projects,--but the government's also doing some big jobs, some real construction work.

Here I was prepared to remove the drug scourge forever, and at a piddling cost.

With this he left us piddling; then within a quarter of an hour came back, and told us the pope-hawk is now to be seen.

There were not merely a little piddling dish of salad, a bite of cake, and a dab of ice-cream.