twiddle
verb (used with object)
to turn about or play with lightly or idly, especially with the fingers; twirl.
have twiddled
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present perfectof twiddle.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 board and some investors seemed to have twiddled their thumbs while the wreckage piled up, possibly hoping that Charney would eventually bring back the magic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2016
If it had been invented in his day, Nero would undoubtedly have twiddled while Rome burned.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the last few years, while one third of the population has lacked adequate medical attention, thousands of doctors have twiddled impecunious thumbs in empty offices.
From Time Magazine Archive
You smirked and, if you had a moustache, you would have twiddled it.
From The Clicking of Cuthbert by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
But he might just as well have twiddled with his blond whiskers and repeated it twenty times for all the good it did: —Gentlemen and constituents….
From Letters from my Windmill by Alphonse Daudet
