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Meanings of quibbler in anglès
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sofista A disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections.
Sinònims
Examples for "pettifogger"
Examples for "pettifogger"
1
You seem to think you are talking to some other pettifogger.
2
He perhaps mistakes me for what you call a-a pettifogger, is it not?
3
Bringing John D. Rockefeller's own personal pettifogger with him too.
4
Stephen Hawk, the ex-district attorney: boomer, pettifogger, promoter- achartermember of the Gaston wolf-pack
5
The tetrarch sank to rise a pettifogger, a spendthrift, ruined by his own follies.
1
Surely none but a caviller will find any want of harmony between these different modes of expression.
2
The little caviller was silent.
3
And a caviller might raise all the same objections to the Copernican system, which you have urged against my reasonings.
4
And now in this Koran we have presented to man similitudes of every kind: but, at most things is man a caviller.
5
In what formed the postscript to the following letter, Darwin wrote: "I have had more Catasetums,-allright, you audacious 'caviller.'")
1
The cavilers in the Museum might take example from him.
2
The housekeeper was now able to silence all cavilers by producing the book itself.
3
Then we went down into a cavern which cavilers say was once a cistern.
4
Proofs like these are not to be set aside by the idle tongues of cavilers.
5
So you may show to cavilers your painting Of the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel.
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.
Frequent collocations
Quibbler through the time