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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
niggle .
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Examples
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Still, the notion niggled at him in the growing darkness.
Deuces Wild Dusty Richards 2004
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Something niggled at the back of my mind as I tried to picture him with blond hair.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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Something niggled at the back of my mind as I tried to picture him with blond hair.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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They rowed and niggled years ago, most memorably here in 2005 when they jostled with Olympian petulance.
Australian Open 2011: Nalbandian and Hewitt fight dying of the light | Kevin Mitchell 2011
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While the niggled about taxes the credit bubble took flight.
Matthew Yglesias » The Gingrich Doctrine and the 21st Century 2009
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Yes we niggled at each other when tiredness was peaking.
The Amazing Survivor Race Challenge: Parenting Edition | Her Bad Mother 2009
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"Charles Dickens story" niggled away at me and gradually the notion evolved that maybe I could write something from the point of view of the scorned wife, a woman about whose thoughts and feelings relatively little is known.
A Conversation with Gaynor Arnold, author of Girl in a Blue Dress 2010
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The winner was niggled along halfway down the straight but quickened up surpemely well inside the final furlong to get ahead of Twice Over (6-1) and Byword (11-4) close home.
Talking Horses 2010
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"It niggled away at me a bit, it's taken a while to get right but now it's really good."
Jessica Ennis turns to Carolina Kluft for help coping with pressure Anna Kessel in New York 2010
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This niggled at my nerves and I felt a sudden desire to just get this over with.
SCANDAL KATE BRIAN 2010
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