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Meanings of quibble in English

Portuguese
falarchicanas
Catalan
subtilesa

An evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections.

        falarchicanas
        Portuguese
        bicar reciprocamente
        Catalan
        disputar

        Argue over petty things.

              bicar reciprocamente

              To bother persistently with trivial complaints.

                    Usage of quibble in English
                    1
                    He was right, of course, and there was no time to quibble.
                    The White Road
                    2
                    You're in no position to talk of rights or quibble about titles.
                    Lily of the Nile
                    3
                    There was barely a quibble about the charges during the information morning.
                    Independent.ie
                    4
                    The woman was too downright in her honesty to quibble or fence.
                    The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South
                    5
                    But it is needless to quibble at a definition of the term.
                    Literary Lapses
                    6
                    One thing you can't quibble about with Slow West is its title.
                    Radio NZ
                    7
                    Anyone who would quibble about it is doing so for quibbling's sake.
                    Reuters
                    8
                    My only quibble is the constant tinkering with parts of the format.
                    The Guardian
                    9
                    And physicists, philosophers, and neuroscientists quibble over its qualities to this day.
                    Wired
                    10
                    Miss Iris had meant her playful retort as a mere light-hearted quibble.
                    The Wings of the Morning
                    11
                    To quibble away such an opportunity would be as cowardly as unwise.
                    The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume...
                    12
                    But as his company was in desperate straits he could not quibble.
                    The new yorker
                    13
                    All this business was a miserable quibble, a tissue of scholastic technicalities.
                    Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Refor...
                    14
                    Allow me to have one small quibble with the analysis, however.
                    The Irish Times
                    15
                    Supporters might quibble, but he did a good enough job at Upton Park.
                    The Guardian
                    16
                    One quibble: two distracting interstitials at the beginning and midway through the set.
                    Reuters
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                    Translations for quibble
                    Quibble through the time
                    Quibble across language varieties
                    Ireland
                    Common
                    United Kingdom
                    Less common
                    United States of America
                    Less common