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Meanings of
lilliputian
in anglès
(Informal) small and of little importance.
little
petty
trivial
fiddling
niggling
picayune
piddling
piffling
footling
Related terms
unimportant
Very small in size.
tiny
diminutive
petite
midget
bantam
flyspeck
Related terms
small
Sinònims
Examples for "
little
"
little
petty
trivial
fiddling
niggling
Examples for "
little
"
1
Europe is a different competition and
little
errors can change the game.
2
The case poses
little
if any threat to human health, officials said.
3
And some believe market actually picked up a
little
bit last year.
4
The group also had
little
time for talk of the euro crisis.
5
The government has so far given away
little
detail of its plans.
1
Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett said the group were playing
petty
politics.
2
Which was true, of course, and
petty
of me to bring up.
3
I don't have time to resolve these
petty
family squabbles right now.
4
Oppression, daily
petty
harassment and humiliation are the breeding ground for violence.
5
The provost, however, had never wasted his time with such
petty
artifice.
1
Consumers are 'overwhelmed with relatively
trivial
choices' says a professor of psychology.
2
Did he think her family morally
trivial
for keeping a clean house?
3
Changes to the Constitution are not done for
trivial
or transient reasons.
4
I only quote this as a
trivial
example of observation and inference.
5
There's a tendency to attribute far too much importance to
trivial
developments.
1
Guess that means I can finally start
fiddling
with your financial records.
2
I may have helped it freeze by
fiddling
with certain environmental controls.
3
He was
fiddling
with the carriage release, exasperated, tugging at the paper.
4
But once you start
fiddling
with the facts, it's hard to stop.
5
Rupert bristled at the order, but he began
fiddling
with a console.
1
Everything from diet to
niggling
little health problems could be causing problems.
2
I need it ASAP. The U.S. case had left a
niggling
fear.
3
Unfortunately, the beauty of the concept is marred by two
niggling
problems.
4
But no matter how much sense I made, the
niggling
had started.
5
Yet there was something
niggling
about Elder's demeanor, a small discordant something.
1
That is not patriotism, but a
picayune
partisanship which I profoundly pity.
2
You kant show the poor man he's ever took a
picayune
from.
3
No, sir, it's hot your
picayune
drop o' spirits that's talkin'-it'sme.
4
He had no reason to think that Cissie cared a
picayune
about him.
5
Then tossing her a
picayune
,
he said, take that, Aunt Dilsey.
1
Humanity was far too obsessed with numerous
piddling
things of no interest.
2
A
piddling
string of munition factories in New York and New Jersey.
3
She was sitting at a table,
piddling
with a deck of cards.
4
All they've got usually is
piddling
little Morris Eights or Austin Sevens.
5
You're highly unlikely to do time, especially given your
piddling
payouts.
1
Inland & Armco, two relatively
piffling
corporations had not yet boosted prices.
2
I've got out of dead-and-alive Wolvercote at last-stupidCouncillors and
piffling
necromancers!
3
The Taoiseach and Mr Molloy see it as a
piffling
matter.
4
Don't be an old maid, Ern, with your
piffling
German conscientiousness.
5
The poor Central Bank of Ireland only holds a
piffling
$90 million.
1
She felt it was a
footling
question even as she asked it.
2
I'm not such an ass as to fall off a
footling
balcony.
3
Despite Lhel's efforts, the second child came wrong way around, a
footling
breach.
4
For these two years, therefore, C na T has spent its time
footling
.
5
Fidgeting,
footling
,
while a companion looked on, and occasionally shifted position.
Imaginary place.
imaginary place
mythical place
Related terms
fictitious place
Usage of
lilliputian
in anglès
1
He felt himself bound and pricked by a thousand delicate
lilliputian
bonds.
2
This is a pity, as their
lilliputian
self-assertion is most amusing.
3
In the middle of the
lilliputian
ranks the giant smoke-clouds leap like hellish gods.
4
This kite system is like fitting a gigantic sail to a
lilliputian
boat, d'ye see?
5
The
lilliputian
vehicles are ubiquitous in Japan - and they would be here, if Detroit had any sense.
6
Anyone who's tried to find something on one of these
lilliputian
Windows desktops knows why this is funny.
7
It is a
lilliputian
kangaroo, the size of our native wood squirrel and larger, only grey or reddish-grey.
8
But Christ did not bring His faith on earth to be destroyed by the
lilliputian
efforts of man.
9
After incredible though
lilliputian
upheavals, at length appeared a tiny black insect, struggling against the rolling, overwhelming sands.
10
I rose from my chair and crossed the room (it didn't take long; my office is
lilliputian
)
.
11
This size business is not just a quirk of green spoon worms:
lilliputian
lovers appear in widely separate groups.
12
Houses as
lilliputian
and as pretty as toys; and the whole a mere mouldy speck upon the earth's face!
13
Players make their way through the fenced compound to the changing rooms and
lilliputian
children swarm about the lilywhite Gullivers.
14
Her humble origin certainly did not betray itself in her hands and feet, which were exquisite in shape and
lilliputian
in size.
15
It had become
lilliputian
,
the horses small as white mice, the men like tin soldiers, as though we had undergone an enchantment.
16
He had an exceeding love of imparting to others, and these pecuniary impediments tied down his large soul with a thousand
lilliputian
cords.
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About this term
lilliputian
Adjective
Frequent collocations
become lilliputian
comparatively lilliputian
lilliputian boat
lilliputian bonds
lilliputian characters
More collocations
Lilliputian
through the time