Meaning of Fiddling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The playing of music on a fiddle.
   countable, uncountable
2. The act of fidgeting.
   countable, uncountable
3. Tweaking; manipulation.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[W]e, her doctors […] seemed powerless to prevent [side-effects], despite all our reassurances, and all our fiddlings and manipulations with the dosage[…]”

“Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have a handful of locals on board?”

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