Piddling

Why don't we stop arguing over these piddling matters and get to the issues at hand?

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.