tinkering's Usage Examples:

The wheat farmers say that it does not pay to take undue care of old machinery, that more money is lost in repairing and tinkering an old machine than would pay for a new one.

Outside a group of teenagers are tinkering with a car engine.

"What made her beautiful had nothing to do with your tinkering," he snapped.

tinkering around the edges.

Taking the states as a whole, agrarian legislation has been the most important subject that has engrossed the attention of their parliaments, and every state has been more or less engaged in tinkering with its land laws.

tinkering with a car engine.

After a great deal of tinkering and trying, they did succeed in making two paddle wheels.

For the rest there are the tombs of many kings in the Biban el Moluk and a good deal of comparatively petty construction and tinkering, with the help of stone robbed from older structures.

Turgot's only choice, however, was between "tinkering" at the existing system in detail and a complete revolution, and his attack on privilege, which might have been carried through by a popular minister and a strong king, was bound to form part of any effective scheme of reform.

His shirt stretched tightly over his shoulders and across his back while his biceps flexed and the roped muscles of his forearms rippled with his tinkering.

Synonyms:

putter, puddle, mess around, muck around, potter, work, monkey around, monkey, muck about,

Antonyms:

unbelt, unbar, unbutton, dislodge, idle,