Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who quibbles; one who evades plain truth by trifling artifices, play upon words, or the like.
- noun A punster.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who quibbles; a caviler; also, a punster.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Somebody who
quibbles
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections
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Examples
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If I could quibble (and I'm nothing if not a quibbler!), let me add one more item on the list: Spend some money, as an organization, learning how to sell.
Women Grow Business » Do’s and Don’ts for Your Marketing Dollars 2009
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(I think the title would have been better in the pluperfect: "had had" but I'm an old quibbler).
Culture Maxine 2009
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"The Professional Chef" is so impressive, and its contents so wide-ranging, that it may bring out the professional quibbler in some readers.
Classics Made New Aram Bakshian Jr. 2011
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A legislative workhorse who shepherded initiatives like gay marriage into law, Mendelson is also kind of a quibbler, which can be irritating to mayors and other ambitious types.
Art Levine: White Candidate's Political Identity Theft in Tuesday's DC Primary 2010
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Disgruntl Ed - not to quibble with the quibbler, but sewn/sown is not a typo so much as the use of the wrong homonym.
Hand Luggage: Bike Builders and Lady-Killers BikeSnobNYC 2009
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It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism."
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The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself.
William Safire, 1929-2009 Omnivoracious 2009
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The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself.
Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009
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Muguet, sois pas chicaneur/Muguet, don't be a quibbler
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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Muguet, sois pas chicaneur/Muguet, don't be a quibbler
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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