A single dusty roll of Turner's brush is more truly expressive of the infinity of foliage, than the niggling of Hobbima could have rendered his canvass, if he had worked on it till doomsday.
Surely our author is not well acquainted with Hobbima's works; that painter had not a niggling execution.
There are no niggling details, breadth is not lost in this multitude of closely observed and recorded facts.
There is no use, observe, in niggling and cheese-paring.
Sachs was no niggling biographer, and his broad vigorous outlines must form the basis of what anyone, who follows him, can write about the botanists of a past day.
But this gives a false impression, suggesting a niggling character from which her work is free.
In the second place, the plants should only be pinched once, and there is no occasion for the niggling business which gardeners call 'setting the bloom.
There need be no nigglingto remove sharp angles, or to make the fragment shapely.
But the way Buck was niggling along it looked as if it might be going to take us all night.
On the other hand, there would be no want, no mean and niggling economies, no battle for daily bread.
Where the welfare of a whole community was at stake, no petty and niggling contention about right of way was allowed to stand.
Hitherto I had regarded my commercial enterprise in the bulk, as a finished monument of industry; the little nigglingpreliminary details had not come up for consideration.
Of course I have a good deal of work to do, and all the washing up, but my sisters are so big and strong that one can't expect them to bother themselves with niggling little things like that.
All these curls have an attitude which is like that of a figure slightly malformed, and not like that of a human body that is perfect, dominant, and if bent, bent at no lowly or niggling labour.
I went on when I suddenly came back and got into that niggling business over why I had come back.
And I'm not in a state to go on niggling about it.
Well, then there was that niggling business over why he had returned.
The niggling had been carried off, they had gone into the garden together; and this infernal letter business--at least he had come away without boiling over about it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "niggling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
