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Significados de quibble em inglês

português
falarchicanas
catalão
subtilesa

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

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português
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catalão
disputar

Argue over petty things.

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To bother persistently with trivial complaints.

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Examples for "peck"
Examples for "peck"
1
We put in a peck at a time, in a dozen places.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
2
They peck when I even think about moving but that's not real.
An ordinary decent criminal
3
A bird-like peck at the inkwell, and the pen began to scratch-scratch-scratch.
The Voice in the Fog
4
Down came the pipe, and with it a peck of greasy soot.
The Man on the Box
5
With that and the flash-light we could get a peck of them.
The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol / Or, The Story of ...
1
It was not in Kay's nature to nag; she let it drop.
The Godfather
2
He put the old nag in a lope down the rocky creek.
The Heart of the Hills
3
After a time the trotting nag overtook the trailers of the procession.
When Egypt Went Broke: A Novel
4
He put his find in his pocket and whipped up the nag.
Madame Bovary
5
With a kick he started the old nag and again pulled in.
The Heart of the Hills
1
She suffered considerable annoyance at the hands of her husband, although she frequently hen-pecked him.
Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date / Biographical Dictionary of the...
2
The number of Northern church-members who are hen-pecked husbands.
Slavery Ordained of God
3
In fact, the bishop is hen-pecked.
Barchester Towers
4
When not hen-pecking her husband this powerful lady was rearing wild animals or corresponding with the Princess Caroline.
A Wanderer in Holland
5
Many marriages are breaking down under stress because "hen-pecking" wives cannot abide failure in their husbands.
The Irish Times
Uso de quibble em inglês
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 ao longo do tempo
Quibble nas variantes da língua
Irlanda
Comum
Reino Unido
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Estados Unidos da América
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