quibble

English - Turkish

Definition of quibble in English Turkish dictionary: kaçamaklı konuşmak; boşyere tartış; gargaraya getirmek; ufak itiraz; önemsiz konular üzerinde tartışmak; lafı çevirme; gerçek sorundan uzaklaşıp küçük şeylerle tartışma; Önemsiz bir mesele üzerinde durmak, önemsiz bir meseleyi tartışmak; kelime oyunu
Önemsiz konularda kelime oyunu yapmayalım. - Let's not quibble over trivial matters.; {i} baştan savma cevap; iki manalı söz; {f} lafı çevirmek; tartış; {i} baştan savma cevap, kaçamaklı söz; cinas; {i} kaçamaklı cevap
Detaylar hakkında kaçamaklı cevap verme. - Don't quibble about the details.; {f} kılı kırk yarmak; {f} kelime oyunu yapmak; {i} ufak itiraz/şikâyet; {f} kaçamaklı cevap vermek
quibble about/over: (önemsiz şeyler üzerinde) münakaşa etmek
quibbler: safsatacı kimse
quibbles: önemsiz
quibbler: {i} kaçamaklı konuşan kimse
quibbler: {i} safsatacı
quibbler: {i} sözcük seçiminde dikkatli kimse
quibbler: tartışmacı
quibbling: (deyim) herşeyde kusur arayan
quibbling: kılı kırk yaran
quibbling: safsatalı
quibbling: tartışan
quibbling: kelimelerle oynayan
quibbling: sözcük seçiminde dikkatli

English - English

Definition of quibble in English English dictionary: To complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner
They are constantly quibbling over insignificant details.; A trivial or minor complaint, objection or argument
I have a quibble with the management practice of declaring everything urgent.; an utterly trivial distinction or objection; {n} an evasion, a pun; {v} to equivocate, to pun; 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; an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections; {i} act of evading a discussion or argument by using ambiguous speech; equivocal statement, ambiguous comment; petty criticism; 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; an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"; 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; argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"; A pun; a low conceit; {f} use ambiguous language to evade a discussion or argument; make an equivocal comment; make petty criticisms; To pun; to practice punning; evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections; A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil; 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
quibblingly: In a quibbling manner; with petty argumentativeness
quibbler: {n} an equivocator, shuffler, punster
quibbled: past of quibble
quibbler: Somebody who quibbles
quibbler: One who quibbles; a caviler; also, a punster
quibbler: {i} one who evades an argument by using ambiguous language; one who makes equivocal comments; one who makes petty criticisms
quibbler: a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections
quibbles: plural of quibble
quibbling: {s} tending to complain, carping, nitpicking; that quibbles over unimportant details; pettifogging
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"
quibbling: present participle of quibble
quibbling: {i} act of a one who quibbles; occurrence of quibbling
quibblingly: Triflingly; evasively