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Niggle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To trifle with; to deceive; to mock.
  • (v. t.) To trifle or play.
  • (v. t.) To act or walk mincingly.
  • (v. t.) To fret and snarl about trifles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But I also feel a niggling strain of jealousy, even resentment, that it wasn't as easy for me the first time around as it is today for many people.
  • (2) But there was always a niggling suspicion that the fun couldn’t last – that Tempelhof’s unique status as a hugely valuable piece of land essentially given over to the average picnicking Berliner was too good to be true.
  • (3) Others face more niggling problems: in a recent post on the local Facebook group “Eliminate All Stray Dogs”, one resident claimed an unruly pack kept jumping on his car, destroying its windscreen wipers.
  • (4) I first saw the ad this weekend, and it's been niggling away at me ever since.
  • (5) Mauro Zárate has been ruled out for two weeks after injuring a hamstring, Enner Valencia will not return until October at the earliest after he suffered a serious knee injury last month and Andy Carroll’s comeback from the knee problem that has kept him out since February has been put back by a week after a niggle in training on Thursday.
  • (6) Ben Flower tested that theory to the limit with his attack on an initially niggling but ultimately defenceless Lance Hohaia which ensured that the 17th Super League Grand Final made a greater national and international impact than any of the previous 16.
  • (7) It is a troubling question that niggles away throughout our visit.
  • (8) Women who do have doubts or niggles are on the other side before they have a chance to think it through.
  • (9) This will unload the skeleton and give joints the chance to rest and recover, especially if one is prone to niggles or has a history of injuries – and you would probably therefore get more out of the long runs when you do undertake them."
  • (10) The niggling question Back to that niggling question: why intervene?
  • (11) Martínez said: “We gave all the players three penalties in training yesterday and if they scored all three then we said they could be back-up to Rom in the games, Ross did, so we said he could in the game.But he didn’t take a Panenka [in training] – he wasn’t allowed!”The Everton manager confirmed John Stones was omitted due to a “niggle” in his hamstring and is expected to be rested for a week to 10 days.
  • (12) Mayor Boris Johnson, whose default setting has been relentless and sometimes improbable cheerleading in the face of serious concerns and minor niggles, promised with typical restraint that as the flame "spreads through the city its radiance will dispel any last clouds of dankness and anxiety that may hover over some parts of the media".
  • (13) On the other hand, have niggles surfaced from continued use that weren't obvious before?
  • (14) I see all kinds of parents making huge efforts to ensure their children are happy, but niggling away in the back of their minds is the disturbing thought that they must prepare their children for lives which could be much harder than their own.
  • (15) Same-sex marriage ruling's ripple effect – historic celebrations of love Read more Almost immediately after the supreme court on Friday made same-sex marriage a right throughout the United States , conservative leaders around the south indicated they would resist the ruling with delay, bureaucratic niggling and circumvention of the verdict on religious grounds.
  • (16) But, as you brace yourself to elbow your way back through Heathrow terminal 3, you harbour niggling prelapsarian feelings about what you've just left behind.
  • (17) During saturation decompression there were 6 treated bends and 33 reported niggles.
  • (18) That would be a staggering achievement given she missed winter training, has had continuing achilles niggles and does not expect to be near her best for another 12 months.
  • (19) The niggling caveat, however, is the proliferation of known unknowns.
  • (20) Or, indeed, all the niggling setbacks suffered over the week which meant the 18-man match day squad included every outfield senior player available.

Wiggle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To move to and fro with a quick, jerking motion; to bend rapidly, or with a wavering motion, from side to side; to wag; to squirm; to wriggle; as, the dog wiggles his tail; the tadpole wiggles in the water.
  • (n.) Act of wiggling; a wriggle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Ian Wright, the chair of the then business innovations and skills select committee and one of the MPs behind Thursday’s motion, said the criticism of their work by Green’s team was an attempt to “wiggle off the hook”.
  • (2) Similarities and differences between the neural control of lordosis and ear wiggling in infant and adult rats suggest that the infant sex-like behaviors may be precursors of adult female sexual behavior.
  • (3) Eagle has since said that her pinkie wiggle was "commenting on the size of GDP growth".
  • (4) GRRRR," he guffawed, eyebrows wiggling lasciviously, before being ejected from Booty at 230mph courtesy of a broom and a gallon of budget acrylic nail glue.
  • (5) There was little about business, again, and some of the spending language conceals the fact that Labour may be quietly creating a very considerable amount of wiggle-room on investment – as much as £50bn each year, according to the IFS.
  • (6) Ear wiggling was disrupted by transections throughout the hindbrain and was facilitated only in females by transections throughout the forebrain (anterior to the mammillary bodies).
  • (7) Simple models are used to calculate the inelastic light scattering spectrum of motile bacteria when wiggling motions are included in addition to translational displacement.
  • (8) We are not letting anyone wiggle out of any commitments and I have every confidence that the government will honour its commitments,” she added.
  • (9) However, analysts expect that the Green party's decision to rule itself out of the future coalition could allow chancellor Angela Merkel some wiggle room in scaling back the speed of the shutdown, expected to cost €550m.
  • (10) 5.58pm BST In Mitt Romney 's ceremonial end to his world tour – the traditional interview with Fox News – Romney appeared to try and wiggle out of his "cultural" argument regarding Israel's superiority over Palestine.
  • (11) Such cuts would presumably be ones that were considered but rejected in favour of the tax credit cuts in July.” The only other way to avoid a Commons vote would be if the OBR reduced their forecast for welfare spending, since that would give the chancellor a “little more wiggle room under the cap”.
  • (12) I said, ‘What’s so funny?’ and they told me that my toes were wiggling.
  • (13) US manoeuvre in South China Sea leaves little wiggle room with China Read more The guided-missile destroyer reportedly received orders to travel within 12 nautical miles (22.2km, or 13.8 miles) of the Spratlys’ Mischief and Subi reefs, which are at the heart of a controversial Chinese island building campaign that has soured ties between Washington and Beijing.
  • (14) He took on a respected urine-sample collector named Dino Laurenzi , whose decision to store samples at his office ultimately allowed Braun the wiggle room he needed to overturn his suspension for testing positive for PEDs.
  • (15) These data suggest that facilitation from the hypothalamus is required for lordosis in the infant rat and the forebrain inhibitory systems for ear wiggling are functional in female infants by 6 days of age.
  • (16) After Lynch wiggles for three yards, Seattle face a 3rd & 6...in the shotgun, Wilson takes off before sending a floater downfield that barley escapes the fingers of Eric Reid - instead, it falls safely into the hands of Doug Baldwin for 22 yards.
  • (17) She leans forward and wiggles her bum while clutching a teddy bear.
  • (18) It was found that estrous females showed about twice as much ear wiggling in the presence of intact males as in the presence of gonadectomized male and female rats.
  • (19) Before the election Abbott vowed to end uncertainty by "guaranteeing that no school will be worse off over the forward estimates period" but Pyne’s new formulation leaves wiggle room for the states to be blamed.
  • (20) Facial wiggle that resulted from direct electrical facial nerve stimulation caused synchronous contraction of all reinnervated strap muscles under study; this was documented on film and through facial and strap muscle activity tracings.