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Niggly is an English word. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Niggly in a sentence

Related words

Niggly | Nigger | Nigg | Niggers

Niggly meaning

  1. Bad-tempered, especially about trivial details.
  2. Trivial, insignificant
  3. Pernickety, paying too much attention to small details.

Using Niggly

  • The main meaning on this page is: Bad-tempered, especially about trivial details. | Trivial, insignificant | Pernickety, paying too much attention to small details.

Context around Niggly

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 18.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

sometimes 1×

Often after:

fouls 1× injury 1× character 1× now 1× injuries 1×

Sentence patterns with Niggly

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

be that niggly character on 1× couple of niggly fouls away 1× scrappy and niggly now 1× sometimes niggly injuries have 1× through the niggly injury phase 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

good battle ensued 1× sometimes niggly injuries 1× this is getting 1×

Common sentence endings:

and niggly now 1× blocked his development 1× dismiss him quickly 1× niggly fouls away 1× niggly injury phase 1×

Words around Niggly

Just before it in the word index:

niggling 20 niggli 4 niggles 19 niggled 2 niggle 43 niggers 12

Just after it in the word index:

niggurath 3 nigh 79 nighat 3 nighswonger 2 night 35.620 nightbird 3

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaas 7 aacc 7 aacs 7 aafes 7 aah 7 aankh 7

Corpus analysis for Niggly

  • In this selection, "niggly" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 18.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, sometimes, fouls, injury and character stand out and add context to how "niggly" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include be that niggly character on and couple of niggly fouls away. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "niggly" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with niggly

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Sometimes niggly injuries have blocked his development. (7 words)

This is getting a bit scrappy and niggly now. (9 words)

It’s been a bit stop-start but hopefully now I’m through the niggly injury phase. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

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. (39 words)

Good battle ensued in the middle early on, although Winks was culpable of giving a couple of niggly fouls away. (20 words)

It’s been a bit stop-start but hopefully now I’m through the niggly injury phase. (17 words)

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.

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "niggly" in a sentence?
An example: "Good battle ensued in the middle early on, although Winks was culpable of giving a couple of niggly fouls away." This page contains 5 example sentences with the word "niggly" from authentic English texts.
What does "niggly" mean?
Niggly means: Bad-tempered, especially about trivial details.
How many example sentences with "niggly" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 5 example sentences with "niggly", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.