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Examples of diddle
diddle
Why diddle around with slow, costly tests while an epidemic is raging out there?
From the time.com
The net effect was to fiddle the facts, diddle the Pentagon, and really screw up Iraq.
From the nation.time.com
A berry known as diddle-dee is used to make many sauces, jams and jellies.
From the express.co.uk
Accept what JP offers, he won't diddle you but he won't be pushed either.
From the expressandstar.com
On the one hand, Bush wants to penalize corporate executives who diddle with their books.
From the time.com
It is much more difficult to manipulate the calendar than to diddle with economic statistics.
From the finance.fortune.cnn.com
On the Saturday I went to Di's Den, Ed threw for the diddle, and won.
From the orlandosentinel.com
One recent survey found that only 28% of respondents trusted MPs not to diddle their expenses.
From the economist.com
Not a warrior, nor an old man, Nor an infant's versatile diddle.
From the theatlantic.com
- Victimize: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
- Toy: manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination; "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate"
- A rudiment is one of the basic patterns used in rudimental drumming. These patterns form the basic building blocks or "vocabulary" of drumming, and can be combined in a great variety of ways to create drumming music.
- A diddle is a type of drum rudiment.
- In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the drag, except that by convention diddles are played the same speed as the context in which they are placed; The penis; to cheat; to swindle; to have sex with; to masturbate (especially of women); ...
- One toss per player that determines the starting order of each new game. Every player throws one washer at the opposite cup. The washer closest to the cup, or in the cup, goes first. Player tossing the second closest to the cup goes next, and so forth. ...
- 1. cheat; swindle. 2. tinker with: e.g., Don't diddle with it!
- To cheat. To defraud.
