| bloodcurdling | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: hair-raising, nightmarish |
|---|
| dwindling | (adjective) gradually decreasing until little remains | Synonyms: tapering, tapering off |
|---|
| fiddling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
|---|
| hardline | (adjective) firm and uncompromising | Synonyms: hard-line |
|---|
| maudlin | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
|---|
| meddling | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, officious |
|---|
| middling | (adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: average, fair, mediocre |
|---|
| oldline | (adjective) long-established | Synonyms: old-line |
|---|
| (adjective) adhering to conservative or reactionary principles | Synonyms: old-line |
| piddling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piffling, trivial |
|---|