fiddlier

Adjective

fiddly (comparative fiddlier, superlative fiddliest)

1. Requiring dexterity to operate.
   • The buttons on the tiny mobile phone were too fiddly.
2. (broadly) Having many small bits or embellishments.
   • See, Barbados, like certain other fiddly little islands— Antigua, Saint Lucia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Japan, Great Britain, Australia— is filled with a genus of hotspurs fiercely dedicated to motoring on the wrong side of the road.1988, Road & Track - Volume 40, page 119
3. Of or relating to fiddling or fidgeting.
   • I can divide my movements into two types: gross motor and fine motor (in other words, large movements and small, fiddly movements) and, as I have already described, I have far more problems with the latter than the former.2012, Terry Rummins, So, I've Got Parkinson's Disease, page 62
4. Pertaining to occasional under-the-table work by people who receive unemployment benefits
   • Because benefit dependence was understood to confine people to poverty ('bend the rules - you've got to in this world cause of the pittance you get off the government') and because doing fiddly work indicated a commitment to self-reliance ('at least they're working') it was widely condoned.2005, R. MacDonald, J. Marsh, Disconnected Youth?: Growing up in Britain’s Poor in Neighbourhoods, →ISBN