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Playing the viola is wasting time aimlessly (8)

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I believe the answer is:

fiddling

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'playing' is the definition.
('fiddle' can be a synonym of 'play')

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(Other definitions for fiddling that I've seen before include "wasting time?" , "Such swindles may be" , "What Nero was doing while Rome burned" , "petty" , "Cooking the books" .)

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