An evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections.
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.
2 They peck when I even think about moving but that's not real.
3 A bird-like peck at the inkwell, and the pen began to scratch-scratch-scratch.
4 Down came the pipe, and with it a peck of greasy soot.
5 With that and the flash-light we could get a peck of them.
1 It was not in Kay's nature to nag ; she let it drop.
2 He put the old nag in a lope down the rocky creek.
3 After a time the trotting nag overtook the trailers of the procession.
4 He put his find in his pocket and whipped up the nag .
5 With a kick he started the old nag and again pulled in.
1 She suffered considerable annoyance at the hands of her husband, although she frequently hen-pecked him.
2 The number of Northern church-members who are hen-pecked husbands.
3 In fact, the bishop is hen-pecked .
4 When not hen-pecking her husband this powerful lady was rearing wild animals or corresponding with the Princess Caroline.
5 Many marriages are breaking down under stress because " hen - pecking " wives cannot abide failure in their husbands.
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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