Sentence example with the word 'quibble'

quibble

adverse criticism, boggle, contest, evade the issue, have it out, logomachize, overcriticalness, polemize, rap, squabble, try conclusions

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

Last update: August 8, 2015


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He is doing this only to introduce a quibble.   [Please select]

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Let's not quibble over pennies.   [Please select]

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So it seems almost churlish to quibble about a name.   [Please select]

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A most ingenious quibble.   [Please select]

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That is a quibble.   [Please select]

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And this miserable quibble was not a lie.   [Please select]

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The result was a great disaster, and Alexander had recourse to the old quibble of the Delphic oracle to Croesus for an explanation.   [Please select]

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"And now to come to the material, or (to make a quibble) to the immaterial."   [Please select]

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"Nay, Miss Janice, 't was the truth I told you, though a quibble, I own."   [Please select]

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I don't pretend to quibble on a point like that.   [Please select]

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With this diplomatic quibble they were forced to be content.   [Please select]

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