0 to worry someone slightly, usually for a long time -- （通常指長時間）使煩擾，困擾
1 to criticize someone about small details or give too much attention to details -- 挑剔，（對…）吹毛求疵
She niggles endlessly over the exact pronunciation. 她對發音是否準確挑剔個沒完沒了。
The accounts department is niggling me for ten pence they say I owe them. 財務部一直糾纏不清，說我欠他們10便士。
I hope that if we can overcome the niggles we can move upon this venture.
While this legislation may not be of primary or major importance, the niggles annoy and cause all sorts of problems.
He thought that we haggled and niggled about details.
We have been seen to be spending months niggling over something which makes little or no difference.
I appreciate that these may be only minor niggles to be set against the enormous amount of extra legislation and orders which are being imposed.
I do not want to seem ungrateful by niggling at this clause.
You can say that without niggling around with the definitions; and the courts are left to use their common sense.
You cannot expect to get satisfaction and content in the police forces, if, after they get an award, you start niggling.
