NIGGLING Synonyms

• causing irritation or annoyance

• causing irritation or annoyance

• (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite

• causing physical discomfort

• continually complaining or faultfinding

• causing irritation or annoyance

• larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale)

• inferior in rank or status

• (informal) small and of little importance

• contemptibly narrow in outlook

• causing difficulty or annoyance

• extremely annoying or displeasing

• causing irritation or annoyance

• a quarrel about petty points

• argue over petty things

• argue over petty things

• agitation resulting from active worry

• a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion

• an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)

• a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch

• worry unnecessarily or excessively

• be agitated or irritated

• provide (a musical instrument) with frets

• become or make sore by or as if by rubbing

• cause annoyance in

• gnaw into; make resentful or angry

• carve a pattern into

• decorate with an interlaced design

• be too tight; rub or press

• cause friction

• remove soil or rock

• wear away or erode

• an excited state of agitation

• an angry disturbance

• a quarrel about petty points

• a rapid active commotion

• worry unnecessarily or excessively

• care for like a mother

• argue over petty things

• an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

• evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections

• argue over petty things

• a quarrel about petty points

• argue over petty things