adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a niggling doubt
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I couldn't shake off a niggling worry. Had I forgotten to lock the office door?
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The suspect seemed to have proved his innocence, but a niggling doubt remained in my mind.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Always, in the background, in the dim recesses of her mind, there had been that niggling doubt.
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Another niggling problem is their inconsistent approach to repeats.
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Croft took a year's sabbatical to recover from a string of niggling injuries and is now raring to go again.
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However, the fabulous goal-kicker is now much more mobile than he was last year when a niggling groin injury affected him.
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Lowell felt a niggling sense of betrayal.
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Nor did it remove the niggling suspicion that Isabel was hiding something.
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There was, however, a niggling doubt in the minds of some of the jurors.
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We flew back to Heathrow; it had not been a happy trip for me, full of niggling and snide remarks.