0 present participle of dabble
1 to take a slight and not very serious interest in a subject, or try a particular activity for a short period:
She dabbled with drugs at university.
2 to put part of your body, such as your hand or foot, into the water of a pool or stream, etc. and move it around
Somehow, dabbling with details was always seen as boring and tedious.
Would it not be better to arrange courses for untrained architects who make themselves a perfect nuisance by dabbling in things they do not understand?
Meantime, it seems to me that we are simply dabbling with something which is quite unworthy of our attention.
Added to this, some of their spokesmen have also been dabbling with the notion of municipalising private and rented property.
He was at that time dabbling in one of his efforts at food taxation.
The people of this country do not want these adventures of dabbling in the political affairs of other peoples, who want independence.
I should not like to see him start dabbling in unit trust shares.
Instead of dabbling in politics, and offering half-baked political philosophy to boot, they would do better to look after the nation's spiritual needs.
