What's the difference between tiddly and tidily?

Tiddly


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael Tidd, a primary teacher and blogger , submitted freedom of information [pdf] requests to every local authority in England, allowing him to compare the results of schools that were externally moderated with those that were not.
  • (2) This breakdown of traditional barriers is also beginning to creep into status and hierarchy, according to Tidd.
  • (3) Philip Tidd of Gensler said that with mobile working, there is not necessarily the need for a seat for everyone but current "smart'' working areas dictate that there is space for a team where there may be eight seats for 10 staff.
  • (4) British bass guitarist, composer and producer Anthony Tidd was in that group.
  • (5) The reality is the stakes are so high for schools now, it’s just not reasonable to expect class teachers to make fair and reasonable judgments on things over which they could be hung out to dry,” Tidd says.
  • (6) Would a maid really risk serious trouble by getting "a little bit tiddly down at the pub"?
  • (7) So I was a bit tiddly and I finished up in this loo with someone threatening to beat me up."
  • (8) This move away from the office desk as the main place of productivity is one of the developments in workplace design which has seen the real estate departments of large corporations realise that packing employees tightly into spaces will not necessarily result in greater productivity, according to Philip Tidd from the design and architecture firm Gensler.
  • (9) Tidd found a large majority of local authorities had results that were lower in moderated schools.
  • (10) "Thatcher as mother" seemed, to my tiddly mind, anathema.

Tidily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a tidy manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 31-year-old who materialised last week was smartly, if anonymously, dressed in black trousers and grey jacket, his hair tidily cut.
  • (2) It was the numbers and sheer youth of these peaceful demonstrators, umbrellas held aloft to ward off teargas and pepper spray, as they confronted – peacefully, tidily and very, very politely – the wrath of Beijing.
  • (3) The midfielder tidily trapped Jonas Olsson’s clearance before letting rip with a shot of such velocity that not even Ben Foster’s fingertips could prevent it from finding the top-right corner.
  • (4) But it is naive to suggest that the broad divisions within the party will tidily melt away if the remain camp prevails on 23 June.
  • (5) But when his big chance came, as Arsenal suffered a few mad moments before the interval, he tucked a first goal of the season tidily past Petr Cech.
  • (6) It is naive to suggest that the broad divisions within the party will tidily melt away if the remain camp prevails Naturally, this intervention has been dismissed by leavers as just another chapter of Project Fear.
  • (7) One wild cross, though, and might have scored with a header Jonny Evans 7 Distribution was a couple of notches below the quality of his defending, notably in the first half, but a reliable presence Nemanja Vidic 7 Decent, no-frills defending, doing well in the air against Giroud, but forced off at half-time with a head injury Patrice Evra 6 The left-back was troubled by Sagna in the second half, with several crosses coming into United's box from his flank Phil Jones 8 Fantastic first half in midfield, defending well and breaking at times, and good when pushed into central defence after that Michael Carrick 6 Could not stem as much of the passing as he would have liked but calm, used the ball tidily and broke up play on occasion Antonio Valencia 6 Involved only in little bursts but his pace occasionally stretched Arsenal and the winger provided a handful of dangerous crosses Wayne Rooney 8 Muscular, non-stop effort.
  • (8) Kyle Beckerman sat in front of the defense tidily enough, and provided the occasional first time ball to show his vision is one of his most underrated qualities, while fellow deep midfielder Mix Diskerud, was probably a net negative for not doing much wrong, but not doing much to seize control of the game either, as this particular audition might have demanded of him.
  • (9) He had felt very odd, got a neighbour to ring for the doctor and stepped tidily into the ambulance and out of the world.
  • (10) But then Selby spots a plant to nothing and tidily pulls it off.
  • (11) We still have five minutes, I said, and you know it, so come, leave your gun tidily under your chair.

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