PIDDLY Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

piddly

adjective

ˈpid-lē

as in nominal

so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention there's only a piddly difference in price between the two paintings, so take whichever you prefer

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Recent Examples of piddly Adding an additional 23,000 km is really a piddly amount. —

Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2010 Online savings accounts have proliferated in recent years, offering higher yields than the piddly rates attached to ordinary savings accounts, which are less than 0.1%, on average. —

Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022 Byrne is still a United States congressman and that’s no piddly thing. —

Kyle Whitmire, al, 7 Nov. 2019 This information isn't written in the controller's piddly instruction manual. —

Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2018 After Kilauea's 1924 summit explosions, the volcano entered a decade of piddly rumblings, followed by 18 years of silence. —

Sophia Yan and Malcolm Ritter, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2018 But sometimes self-denial is its own form of power, as you are no doubt noticing, crammed into that piddly apartment. —

Helaine Olen, Slate Magazine, 25 Jan. 2017

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The sponsor's fee is set at an annual nominal rate of 0.40% of the euro in the Trust.

Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
And, on a more abstract level, a 4.2% 10-year yield isn’t out of line with a U.S. economy now operating at a 5.5% nominal GDP growth pace (based on current GDP tracking models and prevailing headline inflation rates).

Michael Santoli, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2024