fiddled in English

verb

1

play the fiddle.

he fiddled with the band from 1949 to 1951

2

touch or fidget with something in a restless or nervous way.

Laura fiddled with her cup

synonyms: fidget, play, toy, twiddle, fuss, fool about/around, finger, thumb, handle, mess around/about

3

falsify (figures, data, or records), typically in order to gain money.

everyone is fiddling their expenses

synonyms: falsify, manipulate, massage, rig, distort, misrepresent, doctor, alter, tamper with, interfere with, fix, flimflam, cook (the books)

verb

fidget, play, toy, twiddle, fuss, fool about/around, finger, thumb, handle, mess around/about
adjust, tinker, play around, meddle, interfere
falsify, manipulate, massage, rig, distort, misrepresent, doctor, alter, tamper with, interfere with, fix, flimflam, cook (the books)
play, diddle, toy
tamper, monkey
tinker
goldbrick, shirk, shrink from

Use "fiddled" in a sentence

1. He fiddled an income - tax return.

2. 21 The mechanics fiddled with my ship.

3. She fiddled the books while working as an accountant.

4. 6 Sofia waited a few minutes as Jimmy fiddled with the signal.

5. They hemmed and hawed and fiddled with the data, and called for more aid and more research.

6. 20 He turned on the radio and fiddled with the knob until he got a talk show.

7. 15 Mostly, Danielle felt her host was a narcissist, delighted by the sound of his own voice and the humor of his own jokes,(www.Sentencedict.com) and by the pipe he fiddled with and sucked upon between courses.