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Niggly meaning
Bad-tempered, especially about trivial details. | Trivial, insignificant | Pernickety, paying too much attention to small details.
Example sentences (5)
Good battle ensued in the middle early on, although Winks was culpable of giving a couple of niggly fouls away.
It’s been a bit stop-start but hopefully now I’m through the niggly injury phase.
So we’ll expect the same again at Old Trafford, we’ll expect him to come out and be that niggly character on the field he so often is and we need to combat that and dismiss him quickly.
This is getting a bit scrappy and niggly now.
Sometimes niggly injuries have blocked his development.