A quarrel about petty points.
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Examples for "quibble "
Examples for "quibble "
1 He was right, of course, and there was no time to quibble .
2 You're in no position to talk of rights or quibble about titles.
3 There was barely a quibble about the charges during the information morning.
4 The woman was too downright in her honesty to quibble or fence.
5 But it is needless to quibble at a definition of the term.
1 It's possible that one outstanding niggle may resurface; if so, avoid overreacting.
2 He felt a niggle of worry every time he thought of her.
3 I remembered another niggle - odeon line from an earlier Spithill interview I did.
4 Leinster senior coach Stuart Lancaster said: Johnny has a lower-leg niggle .
5 However, one small niggle has been thrown up by the event.
1 His wrath at their babble and petty brabble doubted that they did.
2 There will be a great brabble about it.'
3 Other whites take part in our brabbles , while temper holds out, with a certain schoolboy entertainment.
4 All their debates were pacified by him; he put an end to their brabbling suits at law and wrangling differences.
5 He had hailed even the Treaty of Utrecht with welcome, in hopes it might at least end these Northern brabbles .
1 It wouldn't do me any good to pettifog in this matter.
2 Lanny, you, with all your intellect-whenyou know the oath as well as I - you pettifog like that!
3 The issues involved are too big and far-reaching for pettifogging methods.
4 The opposition did not propose to waste effort on pettifogging preliminaries.
5 Politics after Auschwitz was not meant to become yet another instance of pettifogging .
1 Before we can bicker any further, the sheriff walks into the courtroom.
2 He could not bear to hear his parents bicker any longer.
3 They can bicker and brawl to their hearts' content, it makes no difference.
4 It is never good news when two of the world's biggest economies bicker .
5 The current suspects get to bicker in a stylish basement with insulated walls.
6 But he who would bicker , it must needs be with me.
7 They bicker like cats in a bag, worried they're not getting enough attention.
8 The people didn't send us here to bicker , and it's time to govern.
9 Her face was as that of a child whose parents bicker before her.
10 As the shoot goes on, my publicist and Gustav bicker non-stop.
11 They ain't sparrows but they still bicker in their damned sleep.
12 The waiters bicker hotly; the counting-room bell rings afar off.
13 The children might giggle and bicker outside, but before the emperor, they showed nothing.
14 Kay and Sam, shouldering familial guilt in different ways, bicker over Edna's care arrangements.
15 The dwarf wanted to bicker but sensed that wasting time might prove uncomfortable shortly.
16 Wagner, meanwhile, is trying to crawl out while they bicker .
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