twiddlesome

comparative more twiddlesome · superlative most twiddlesome

1. Charactersied or marked by twiddling; trifling

   But it’s doomed, alas, like all attempts to hypnotise the play-goer with twiddlesome tricks.

   2012, Lloyd Evans, There will be blood

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   Our physical anthropologists are keeping up with the twiddlesome technology of the physicists and chemists, while sticking to their own lasts.

   1977, Annual Review of Anthropology, volume 6, page 9