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Meanings of
quibbler
in anglès
català
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A disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections.
pettifogger
caviller
caviler
català
sofista
Usage of
quibbler
in anglès
1
The
quibbler
,
however, is welcome to anything he may find.
2
Before his pictures we can only stand silent-hedisarms criticism and strikes the
quibbler
dumb.
3
He is no splitter of hairs, no
quibbler
.
4
General Colley was no
quibbler
with words.
5
Any
quibbler
can twist the meaning of words, while only those who think the thought can understand.
6
Your father was a
quibbler
before you.
7
Thus did the metaphysical poet resemble the
quibbler
exercising precisely the same tyranny over ideas, which the latter practised upon sounds only.
8
Now there is no dispute, unless there be other
quibblers
.
9
Both phrases come from Saint Paul, who was the very prince of theological
quibblers
.
10
Several of those
quibblers
I happened to know.
11
I know you philosophers and
quibblers
!
12
Not that anyone is tiring of the first-choice set-up, but for once there wasn't a quibble among notorious
quibblers
.
13
The discrepancy between the Father's narrative and the actual climax has given rise to some scepticism on the part of ingenious
quibblers
.
14
The discrepancy between the Father's narrative and the actual climax has given rise to some skepticism on the part of ingenious
quibblers
.
15
As to whether the FlyTech Dragonfly is the first RC ornithopter, or is in fact an ornithopter at all, I'll leave to
quibblers
.
16
Both fools, mere
quibblers
and sophists, idly and vainly attached to certain ridiculous notions of their own, founded neither on truth nor on reason.
Other examples for "quibbler"
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Frequent collocations
infairnal quibbler
resemble the quibbler
Translations for
quibbler
català
sofista
Quibbler
through the time