Определение quibbling в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
{s} tending to complain, carping, nitpicking; that quibbles over unimportant details; pettifogging
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"
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
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
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
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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