fiddling
Example Sentences
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Pescadero is Spanish for fishmonger — the coast is dotted with fishermen fiddling with poles planted in the sand.
From New York Times
Examples of these “fixes” present a Who’s Who of contemporary sensitivities along with a lot of gratuitous fiddling.
From Washington Post
And so the GOP has embraced an anti-democracy strategy, fiddling with election laws to make it harder and harder for the liberal majority to vote.
From Salon
She would attempt to stay warm while fiddling with PowerPoint presentations.
From Washington Post
That is not to imply we spend our days either fiddling with Bunsen burners and test tubes or composing odes and flinging gobs of paint at inanimate objects.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.