fiddle-faddle

Example Sentences

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The music shifts between passages of slippery, out-of-focus tonal harmonies and episodes of rustic dance, like tart, fractured fiddle-faddle.

From New York Times

Another is a restless outburst of modernistic fiddle-faddle.

From New York Times

He said one day to me, "Why don't you give up your fiddle-faddle of geology and zoology, and turn to the occult sciences?"

From Project Gutenberg

I should like to know what we have in common with that little fiddle-faddle Dresden china clock and shepherdesses upon the mantel-piece!

From Project Gutenberg

Nonsense, nonsense, fiddle-faddle! we’re all getting older, as a matter of fact, but you are still a young woman in the very prime of life.

From Project Gutenberg