Synonym: diddle, goldbrick, monkey, play, shirk, shrink from, tamper, tinker, toy, violin. Similar words: middle, middle-class, middle ground, addle, meddle, cuddle, peddle, puddle. Meaning: ['fɪdl] n. bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow. v. 1. avoid (one's assigned duties) 2. commit fraud and steal from one's employer 3. play the violin or fiddle 4. play on a violin 5. manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination 6. play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly 7. try to fix or mend.
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31 This blouse is a bit of a fiddle to do up.
32 The narrative in this book plays second fiddle to the excellent photographs.
33 He brought out the fiddle, its varnish cracked and blistered.
34 The fiddle began to twang.
35 You seem fit as a fiddle, Mr Blake.
36 So a bit of fiddle, but nothing really egregious.
37 He was never more than a B-movie actor, playing second fiddle to actors like Errol Flynn.
38 The firm realised some sort of fiddle was going on, but they had no idea how much they were losing.
39 So often he has played second fiddle to Wright and notched only nine goals last season to his partner's 30.
40 Multi-nationals can use their market power to fiddle transfer prices.
41 Looking very solemn and Royal Academyish, I suddenly drew a fiendishly grinning devil playing a fiddle in the castle forecourt.
42 Majella took up the fiddle, I got an accordion and Mary got a banjo.
43 Throughout her married life she had to play second fiddle to the interests of her husband.
44 At night, the men sometimes got out a fiddle and pegged down a dry buffalo hide and danced on it.
45 In his teens he had begun to fiddle with the concept of a substitute for direct current.
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46 She's always having the builders in to fiddle around with something or other.
47 The bank began to record huge losses-and to fiddle its accounts to disguise them.
48 But computerised turnstile operations have made it almost impossible to fiddle the attendance figures in modern times.
49 Hillier, who's since served a jail sentence himself in connection with the fiddle, reported him to the police.
50 Not many people could stand to be second fiddle for as long as Kerri was.
51 You seem fit as a fiddle, Mr Blake. Close call, though.
52 Ila Steven played reels on the fiddle and Jean Bechar sang Burns songs.
53 She might also have simply got tired of playing second fiddle to the Prince's pastimes.
54 Mr Pozsgay was simply fed up with playing second fiddle, a characteristic that was to re-emerge later.
55 Herron rounded out the band with some fiddle and steel guitar.
56 I fiddle at my computer for a while, trying to figure out what to say.
57 Francie had taken his fiddle and gone off about his own business in his Easter Rising trilby and mackintosh.
58 He was playing the fiddle with hands wrapped in burlap.
59 He had been a reluctant ally and may well have resented playing second fiddle to his younger brother.
60 Instead of playing the fiddle, they could sip cocktails and play poker while nuclear war devastated the world outside their bunker.
More similar words: middle, middle-class, middle ground, addle, meddle, cuddle, peddle, puddle, saddle, meddler, befuddle, befuddled, huddle together, meddlesome, midday, ridden, hidden, infidel, confide, fidelity, bona fide, diffident, confident, fiduciary, affidavit, confidence, infidelity, diffidently, confidential, idle.