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31trivial — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. insignificant, unimportant, trifling, picayune, paltry; mean, piddling, small, petty. See unimportance, cheapness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. petty, trifling, small, superficial, piddling, wee,… …
32Orange Prize for Fiction — Awarded for Best full length novel written in English by a woman of any nationality Presented by Orange Location United Kingdom First awarded 1996 …
33piddle — piddler, n. /pid l/, v., piddled, piddling. v.i. 1. to spend time in a wasteful, trifling, or ineffective way; dawdle (often fol. by around): He wasted the day piddling around. 2. Informal. (esp. of children and pets) to urinate. v.t. 3. to waste …
34handful — Synonyms and related words: Augean task, Herculean task, a few, ace, atom, backbreaker, ballbuster, bit, bitch, bother, chore, couple, dab, dead lift, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, farthing, few, fistful, fleck, flyspeck, fragment,… …
35scattering — Synonyms and related words: a few, aloofness, anarchy, attenuation, attenuative, bit, breakup, broadcast, broadcasting, chaos, circumfusion, confusion, crack up, diffraction, diffractional, diffractive, diffusion, diffusive, dilution,… …
36sprinkling — Synonyms and related words: a few, affusion, aspergation, aspersion, attenuation, baptism, baptismal gown, baptismal regeneration, baptistery, baptizement, bath, bathing, bedewing, broadcast, broadcasting, cast, chrismal, christening,… …
37trickle — Synonyms and related words: a few, condensation, condense, distill, distillation, dribble, drip, dripping, drippings, dripple, drizzle, drop, exude, filter, flow, gurgle, handful, leach, leaching, leak, leak out, leakage, leaking, limited number …
38negligible — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. slight, insignificant. See littleness, unimportance. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. minute, minimal, insignificant, inconsequential, trifling, nominal, piddling, paltry, imperceptible, unimportant …
39nugatory — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. useless, ineffectual, worthless, futile; helpless. See uselessness, impotence. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. worthless, trifling, inadequate, piddling; see useless 1 , worthless 1 . III (Roget s… …
40petty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. trivial, unimportant, small, mean, trifling; contemptible, spiteful. See unimportance. Ant., serious, major, important. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Trivial] Syn. small, insignificant, frivolous; see… …
