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Meanings of quibbling in English
Synonyms
Examples for "carping"
Examples for "carping"
1
In the Presidential debate Carter came across as carping, pinched and humorless.
2
No carping: glad to share the spotlight with the newspaper of record.
3
Priestley was a West Yorkshireman, built for a certain kind of carping.
4
Their carping, quarrelsome attitude had taken all the pleasure from knowing them.
5
Shall we never have done with this carping at people who succeed?
1
In light of an incredible 2014 for Seattle however, this is nitpicking.
2
Annoyed and frustrated, Ryan had passed the time nitpicking everything I said.
3
But Eco manages to make these sorts of nitpicking interludes progressively beguiling.
4
This would all seem like nitpicking if the stakes weren't so high.
5
In a sense he is right, but it's the nitpicking debater talking here.
1
He believed in fair play and despised sharp practice and pettifogging tricks.
2
Jack considered him more of a pettifogging bureaucrat than an intelligence officer.
3
We can't help it; we put the pettifogging first and the people second.
4
The issues involved are too big and far-reaching for pettifogging methods.
5
The opposition did not propose to waste effort on pettifogging preliminaries.
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Nothing is said so simply that it cannot be distorted by caviling.
2
There will be no caviling at the satisfying antiquity of Fuenterrabia.
3
These are palpable facts, about which, as facts, there can be no caviling.
4
You are a captious, caviling, carping, crabbed, contentious, cantankerous chap.
5
How fond she was of caviling at Christian lives!
Usage of quibbling in English
1
But he didn't want to complicate an already delicate situation by quibbling.
2
There's no Gallagher-esque quibbling rivalry, nor does one brother take obvious charge.
3
Your quibbling is childish and unbecoming to a man of your age.
4
This was no time for quibbling-notime for nice shadings of propriety.
5
Against Arsenal, Mourinho was probably alone in quibbling with the result.
6
Often as not it deteriorates into quibbling, but occasionally one's strategy is improved.
7
Thirdly, in order to deprive the Jews of ground for quibbling.
8
The relations between buyer and seller are still often disturbed by petty quibbling.
9
A quibbling mouth that snapped at verbal errors like a lizard catching flies
10
Nobody, not even Laurene, was quibbling about the efficacy of profiling.
11
He was trying to bait me into quibbling over how he'd phrased it.
12
It was quibbling to lay the whole blame on Ocock's shoulders.
13
As for coquetting, quibbling, resisting, she never once thought of it.
14
Lying, quibbling, or misleading statements can and will result in charges.
15
It's no use in my quibbling, Cal, your offer is a stirring one.
16
This is no day for dilly-dallying and quibbling about 'State rights.'
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Quibbling through the time
Quibbling across language varieties
United Kingdom
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