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Examples of niggle


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Women had to watch their steps very carefully in the in-laws' home or risk a great deal of niggling mental cruelty.
Although the idea is fascinating, and the book certainly to be welcomed, there are niggling irritations.
There are some very minor points that one might niggle at.
To the believer it will indeed show the compatibilities of science, while to some open-minded sceptics it may niggle uncomfortably.
Many users will have the occasional inter pretational niggle (and probably feel churlish about it) but their abiding impression will surely be of sheer quality and value for money.
We do not want to give the impression to anybody involved that we are niggling at cost.
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If one niggles at that proposition, it is difficult to know where to draw the line.
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We are niggling at this problem, and we ought to be ashamed to do so.
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They were not enamoured of the idea, they did not like it, and they have constantly niggled away at it ever since.
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To use their own expression to me, this "really niggles".
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They have never niggled only on grounds of expenditure.
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I get niggled with anything out of place and jump at my wife and say that's not good enough.
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The debate was about a series of niggles.
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My fear is that we will not have sufficient time to reflect on people's niggles and anxieties.
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However, his efforts are undermined by little governmental niggles, which are not directly of his doing, but over which he may have some influence.
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I hope that if we can overcome the niggles we can move upon this venture.
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While this legislation may not be of primary or major importance, the niggles annoy and cause all sorts of problems.
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He thought that we haggled and niggled about details.
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We have been seen to be spending months niggling over something which makes little or no difference.
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I appreciate that these may be only minor niggles to be set against the enormous amount of extra legislation and orders which are being imposed.
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I do not want to seem ungrateful by niggling at this clause.
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You can say that without niggling around with the definitions; and the courts are left to use their common sense.
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You cannot expect to get satisfaction and content in the police forces, if, after they get an award, you start niggling.
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Lastly, there are proposals to deal with fees and remove an anomaly which has always niggled me.
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Every time, on everything that we have done, they have niggled and knocked.
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Only minor matters are still niggling at the back of my mind.
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We should keep reverting to and niggling at some subjects.
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You do not start niggling about whether they are entitled to that or say that if they had saved a bit more they would not be entitled to it.
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There was a series of niggles.
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There are lots of little niggles.
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He niggled everyone with unhidden pleasure.
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Let us look upon it as a challenge and not try to niggle at it and get it into nothing at all.
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We need not niggle as to a shilling or two whether it is an overcharge or not.
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To niggle over £15 million to £20 million is very short-sighted.
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Here again, although there is this slight, small "niggle", we have achieved a reasonable compromise.
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If one wanted to niggle, one could ask why this or that has not been included.
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Let us not niggle about trying to assist one part of the industry, or one part of an industry, and then another part.
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There is one niggle here that is not entirely germane to the debate.
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Let us not niggle at the cost of this.
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Do not let us try at this stage to niggle over six months, nine months or a year.
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One does not niggle about costs when basic principles are involved.
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Are we not unwise then to niggle about questions of fifty-fifty, and so forth, in any plans which may be brought forward?
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I want to get one final niggle out of my system after waiting for many years to come here.
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I urge him not to niggle over the small cost that this proposal would involve.
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There is much feeling that this extra niggle for ratepayers, who are rated on improvements that they make, is a discouragement to such improvement.
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We all know that there are small historical issues that continue to niggle away.
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We should be proud of that, and should not niggle about it.
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A little niggle of doubt always remained and, with reflection, that doubt has grown.
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He asked me in dealing with it to consider the principle of the amendment rather than to niggle at the way in which it was drafted.
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However, that is a small niggle.
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He wrote that his only niggle is the lack of sampled speech, which he considered to be a bit of a let down.
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My only niggle was the slight hollowness invested in the lower-midrange.
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Niggle ends up discarding all his other artworks, or tacks them onto the main canvas, which becomes a single vast embodiment of his vision.
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Niggle is a painter struggling against the summons of death to complete his one great canvas, a picture of a tree with a background of forest and distant mountains.
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