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- adverb In a way that is
niggling .
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Examples
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You meant 2 to 1 (or 2.2 to 1 if you want to be nigglingly accurate).
Plouffe Rules Out Use Of Whitewater Or Cattle Futures Against Hillary 2009
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To be nigglingly accurate, they do not all agree that she is going to win.
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I'm also naggingly, nigglingly aware that I should try a bit harder to manufacture it somehow.
Neurotica juliette 2009
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I'm also naggingly, nigglingly aware that I should try a bit harder to manufacture it somehow.
Archive 2009-03-01 juliette 2009
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I already have enough reasons for disliking paying tax without the nigglingly irritating knowledge that some of it is going to fund jihadist halfwits like Mouammar.
Canada’s funding of nut case exemplar, Khaled Mouammar « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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Ballads and funky shuffles are originals but nigglingly familiar, and even the reggae treatment of Seven Nation Army fails to disturb the good mood.
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Katherine Lynch brings her crazy crew of highly unusual, but nigglingly identifiable, modern Irish Women to Vicar Street Stage.
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Katherine Lynch brings her crazy crew of highly unusual, but nigglingly identifiable, modern Irish Women to Vicar Street Stage.
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Addendum: Something felt nigglingly familiar about that last paragraph — I realize it’s because it’s fairly similar to author David Brin’s call for a “predicitions registry.”
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