0 past simple and past participle of fiddle
1 to act dishonestly in order to get something for yourself, or to change something dishonestly, especially to your advantage:
2 to move things about or touch things with no particular purpose:
I can't remember how the numbers were worked out - we fiddled around with that.
I would be prepared to say now that an awful lot of expenses filed in the last five years have been "fiddled".
We must suspect that these figures have been "fiddled", as every other figure had been "fiddled".
There is great anguish in my area because the exemption is clearly being fiddled.
It is a monstrous allegation that the case was "fiddled" and fraudulently settled.
They have wilfully fiddled the local government funding settlement in a way that has made the problem in our schools worse.
We have produced a system which is not fiddled.
What he means is that they fiddled it.
