NIGGLE


Meaning of NIGGLE in English

I. verb

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

niggling doubt/worry/suspicion etc

Almost immediately, the fretting, niggling worries and the sense of fearful anticipation began to return.

Always, in the background, in the dim recesses of her mind, there had been that niggling doubt.

And here a niggling doubt enters the mind.

Nor did it remove the niggling suspicion that Isabel was hiding something.

Of course, this is usually so, but I am having little niggling doubts about such a sweeping statement.

There remains the niggling doubt that this delay has something to do with our muddled sentimentality towards animals.

There was, however, a niggling doubt in the minds of some of the jurors.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Doubts niggled at the back of her mind.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And the editor is the only area to niggle with, really.

Clearly something other than the bass notes on the wireless niggled him.

He used to niggle at me for being a capitalist farmer and I got at him for being an unemployed commie.

I was niggled during those first few months by the feeling of being a charlatan.

She was niggled by a lingering doubt that she might have played her cards badly.

So this was Guy Sterne's type of woman, an irritating little voice niggled the back of her mind.

The empty feeling of the place niggled management.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Almost as if he believed his story ... And she herself started to feel another niggle of doubt.

And that's my only other niggle , really.

He'd meant to stay longer, but a wee niggle in his mind made him return early.

It is an excellent book, as I took care to point out, except for my few niggles.

My only niggle is that the seams on the top of the shoulder are quite prominent and uncomfortable.

Numerous other niggles arose from our months together.

Time may sort it out for me, but meanwhile I have to live with its niggle .

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