fiddly
Britishadjective
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It will only operate with an eSIM - which allows users to switch networks or plans without resorting to a fiddly fork to open a tiny SIM card tray.
From BBC
Ally and Jay’s rom-com caricature is the cleverest subplot in the movie — the pair are heightened Hallmark Channel ingenues who like fiddly coffee orders, coordinated plaids and the same shade of taupe.
From Los Angeles Times
If all this sounds a little fiddly, well, just understand that it’s tough to mimic Mother Nature.
From Los Angeles Times
The plans outlined include a lot of fiddly changes to how the government makes big decisions on planning, infrastructure, housing and transport.
From BBC
As detailed, if not instigated, by this paper, the Globes’ former administrators, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., finally dissolved in a flurry of bad publicity over an extreme lack of diversity among its relatively minuscule, dubiously credentialed, infamously persuadable, financially fiddly, disproportionately demanding membership.
From Los Angeles Times
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