piddling

adj

1. (not-comparable)Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.

   “After all the work I'd done, he gave me a piddling amount of money.”

   “the ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes”

   “Los Angeles would still be a piddling little town in a desert if it weren’t for Sierra snowmelt and city officials crafty enough to snooker eastern California farmers out of their water rights.”

   “[…]last month the Pentagon spent $400mn to take a 15 per cent stake in MP Materials, a Nevada-based group that aims to be “a fully integrated rare earths producer”. That is a piddling sum.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of piddle