niggling

adj : (informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling

sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are

lilliputian compared with those of countries that are

at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over

niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises";

"piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free

meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a

picayune infraction" [syn: {fiddling}, {footling}, {lilliputian},

{little}, {piddling}, {piffling}, {petty}, {picayune},

{trivial}]