niggling

Despite playing with niggling injuries, the England man is without doubt the oil that is currently greasing the Real machine.

Even though she had now met her father, Tamuna still had a niggling question: had she - like thousands of other Georgians - been stolen from her mother at birth and sold?

"If somebody has some niggling concerns and it triggers them to ask somebody, 'Are you OK?' then that would be an amazing outcome."

"There was something niggling in the back of my mind, I just knew something was off."

A painful and niggling neck problem that emerged in the second round of the Players only served to increase his determination to become the first to defend the title.