An evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections.
To bother persistently with trivial complaints.
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.
6 One thing you can't quibble about with Slow West is its title.
7 Anyone who would quibble about it is doing so for quibbling's sake.
8 My only quibble is the constant tinkering with parts of the format.
9 And physicists, philosophers, and neuroscientists quibble over its qualities to this day.
10 Miss Iris had meant her playful retort as a mere light-hearted quibble .
11 To quibble away such an opportunity would be as cowardly as unwise.
12 But as his company was in desperate straits he could not quibble .
13 All this business was a miserable quibble , a tissue of scholastic technicalities.
14 Allow me to have one small quibble with the analysis, however.
15 Supporters might quibble , but he did a good enough job at Upton Park.
16 One quibble : two distracting interstitials at the beginning and midway through the set.
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