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belittling
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adj 1: tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments";
"managed a deprecating smile at the compliment";
"deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting
remark" [syn: belittling, deprecating, deprecative,
deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory,
slighting]
n 1: a belittling comment [syn: denigration, belittling]
2: the act of belittling
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crippling
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adj 1: that cripples or disables or incapacitates; "a crippling
injury" [syn: crippling, disabling, incapacitating]
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dribbling
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n 1: the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks [syn:
dribble, dribbling]
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fiddling
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adj 1: (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" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian,
little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty,
picayune, trivial]
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middling
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adv 1: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty
big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are
priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"
[syn: reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly,
somewhat, fairly, middling, passably] [ant:
immoderately, unreasonably]
adj 1: lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of
average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata";
"in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone
from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was
middling at best" [syn: average, fair, mediocre,
middling]
n 1: any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially
when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
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niggling
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adj 1: (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" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian,
little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty,
picayune, trivial]
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piddling
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adj 1: (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" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian,
little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty,
picayune, trivial]
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rippling
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n 1: a small wave on the surface of a liquid [syn: ripple,
rippling, riffle, wavelet]
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sculling
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n 1: rowing by a single oarsman in a racing shell
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sibling
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n 1: a person's brother or sister [syn: sibling, sib]
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stripling
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n 1: a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn:
adolescent, stripling, teenager, teen]
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tripling
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n 1: increase by a factor of three
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culling
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dulling
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giggling
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gulling
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hulling
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jiggling
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mulling
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nibbling
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pickling
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quibbling
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scribbling
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trickling
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twiddling
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whittling
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wiggling
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lulling
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whitling
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