fiddle
noun
a musical instrument of the viol family.
have fiddled
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present perfectof fiddle.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The penalties—some $260 billion and counting for big American and European banks—have fallen mainly on commercial and investment bankers who have fiddled markets.
From Economist ● Jan. 28, 2016
Other shows have fiddled with unreliable narration, often for comic effect.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 25, 2015
While other production builders have fiddled with lightweight structures, Hatteras has always favored practical and proven methods.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would never have fiddled while Rome burned.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman
And Chirpy squeezed himself further into the crack where he was hiding until he was so huddled up 38 that he couldn’t have fiddled if he had wanted to.
From The Tale of Chirpy Cricket by Arthur Scott Bailey
