I'm fed up with your constant niggling, Mary.
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Niggling
Synonyms for "niggling" (137 found)
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My dear Hooker, I am getting very much amused by my tendrils, it is just the sort of niggling work which suits me, and takes up no time and rather rests me whilst writing.
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Sellafield hasn’t suffered an accident of equivalent scale since the 1957 fire, but the niggling fear that some radioactivity is leaking out of the facility in some fashion has never entirely vanished
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Occasionally a paranoia or slight insecurity that is not based on reality will bring nigglings of that bad time.
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