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Meanings of quibble in английском

португальский
falarchicanas
каталонский
subtilesa

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

falarchicanas
португальский
bicar reciprocamente
каталонский
disputar

Argue over petty things.

bicar reciprocamente
Синонимы
Examples for "cavil"
Examples for "cavil"
1
The Ontarian, in fact, did not object in a spirit of cavil.
The Young Seigneur / Or, Nation-Making
2
No one would cavil with the Cork Constitution, Munster and Ireland wing.
The Irish Times
3
The critics did not venture to cavil at his preaching to Gentiles.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
4
It then bore a better appearance, and was less open to cavil.
Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul
5
And while the critics may carp and cavil, they're not buying tickets.
Radio NZ
1
He knew it well, and was cognizant with its every legal quiddity.
Cousin Henry
2
There you indeed appreciate the dead-alive city 'in all its quiddity.'
A Day's Tour / A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, T...
3
Serial killers are the quiddity and quintessence of malignant narcissism.
The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology
4
We in WITCH consider ourselves the incarnate quiddity of revolution-blendingfemale rebellion with Leftist revolt.
Feminist dot com
5
George Orwell thought a quiddity of England was an old maid cycling through mist to church.
The Guardian

To bother persistently with trivial complaints.

Usage of quibble in английском
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