NIGGLING


Meaning of NIGGLING in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a niggling doubt

I couldn't shake off a niggling worry. Had I forgotten to lock the office door?

The suspect seemed to have proved his innocence, but a niggling doubt remained in my mind.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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

Another niggling problem is their inconsistent approach to repeats.

Croft took a year's sabbatical to recover from a string of niggling injuries and is now raring to go again.

However, the fabulous goal-kicker is now much more mobile than he was last year when a niggling groin injury affected him.

Lowell felt a niggling sense of betrayal.

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

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

We flew back to Heathrow; it had not been a happy trip for me, full of niggling and snide remarks.

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