a little



barely, extremely, fairly, hardly, imperfectly, in a way, insignificantly, kind of, lightly, little, minimally, minutely, pretty, quite, rather,

   misdoing - aberration, crime, delusion, discourtesy, disorder, disorderly conduct, disruption, distortion, errancy, error, evildoing, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fault,

   woefulness - bitterness, depression, discomfort, distress, grief, joylessness, lamentation, melancholy, mournfulness, mourning, pain, pathos, poignancy, prostration, sadness,

   storm centre - axis, centre, core, heart, hub, kernel, marrow, middle, nave, navel, nub, nucleus, pith, pivot ,

   stingily - here and there, infrequently, meanly, niggardly, rarely, scarcely, sparsely ,

   pass the time - busy, dabble, devote, diddle, doodle, employ, engage, kill time, occupy, piddle, potter, putter, spend, stagnate, trifle,

   waiting - about to be, agape, agog, all agog, already in sight, anticipating, anticipative, anticipatory, anxiety, apprehension, approaching, at hand, attendant, attending, awaiting,

   rule the roost - bestride, dictate, dominate, master, predominate, preponderate, prevail, reign, shot ,

   make a beginning - break in, get going, get off, start up, warm up ,

   overhearer - auditor, eavesdropper, hearer, listener, snoop ,

   paediatrician - anaesthesiologist, cardiologist, chiropodist, dermatologist, eye doctor, eye-ear-nose-throat specialist, gerontologist, gynaecologist, immunologist, neurologist, obstetrician, oculist, ophthalmologist, orthopaedics, pathologist,