A trivial or minor complaint, objection or argument - "I have a quibble with the management practice of declaring everything urgent."
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To complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner - "They are constantly quibbling over insignificant details."
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an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
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A quibble is a small and unimportant complaint about something. These are minor quibbles. to argue about small unimportant details quibble about/over. a small complaint or criticism about something unimportant
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argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"
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an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies" evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections
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When people quibble over a small matter, they argue about it even though it is not important. Council members spent the day quibbling over the final wording of the resolution
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an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"
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evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections
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act of evading a discussion or argument by using ambiguous speech; equivocal statement, ambiguous comment; petty criticism isim
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To pun; to practice punning
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To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate
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use ambiguous language to evade a discussion or argument; make an equivocal comment; make petty criticisms fiil
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A pun; a low conceit
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A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil
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quibblingly
In a quibbling manner; with petty argumentativeness
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quibbled
past of quibble
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quibbler
Somebody who quibbles
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quibbler
one who evades an argument by using ambiguous language; one who makes equivocal comments; one who makes petty criticisms isim
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quibbler
a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections
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quibbler
One who quibbles; a caviler; also, a punster
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quibbles
plural of quibble
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quibbling
present participle of quibble
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quibbling
tending to complain, carping, nitpicking; that quibbles over unimportant details; pettifogging sıfat
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quibbling
quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics"
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quibbling
act of a one who quibbles; occurrence of quibbling isim