1
as in to complain
to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant
he spent the entire evening quibbling about the historical inaccuracies in the television series on World War II
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2
as in to argue
to express different opinions about something often angrily
don't quibble over who gets to sit in front
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as in objection
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Recent Examples of quibble
Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2025
That is so nice that Miss Manners does not want to quibble.
—Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2025
Justin Worland, TIME, 25 Feb. 2025
For Minnelli true believers such quibbles may not matter.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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Verb
The soldier must choose between steps that work towards a compromise or rile up the quibbling parties.
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The report found the company to be exceptional, with quibbles so minor that explaining them here would require a crash course in the dense lexicon of climate reporting.
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Pundits complained last year’s Cannes was a light affair, but that had to do with the bottleneck created by the strikes, for one.—
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Ranchers complain about predation on their herds and city dwellers fear having wolves living too close for comfort.—
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Now, perhaps swayed by Trump’s popular vote victory – the first for a Republican candidate in 20 years – many US conservatives appear to have changed their position, arguing the US is more a democracy than a republic.—
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The imposition of the tariffs is also detrimental to the wider Caribbean Community, the Guyanese Chamber argues, and exacerbate the vulnerability of countries with already fragile economies.—
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That decision came over the objections of Chief Justice John Roberts and the court's three liberal justices.—
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Kansas Action for Children, a nonpartisan child advocacy group, has also voiced objection to the amendment Williams added to the bill enshrining religious freedom exemptions to immunization requirements for daycares.—
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Similarly, viewers nitpicked an image Siragusa shared of her door frame, which was purportedly shot open.—
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For one, both experts say that being too rigid can also lead to self-sabotaging behaviors, like rejecting otherwise great matches for superficial reasons or coming up with excuses to nitpick things that never mattered before.—
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At times, Jason and Tonya seem to border on George and Martha from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, bickering with each other as Mikal listens or, more often than not, tunes it out with earphones on, playing video games.—
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An alien spaceship has spiked an immensely popular bubblegum with an interdimensional ectoplasm that turns everyone who chews it into zombies, and the only ones who can save humanity are bickering foster brothers Daffy Duck and Porky Pig (both voiced by Eric Bauza).—
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Really good, and if you’re not fussed about mod cons or hybrid tech, one can be sat on your driveway for just £18,850 ($24,388).—
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Even so, the film’s Very Online fandom didn’t seem fussed.—
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Lansky fought attempts by the Israeli Interior Ministry to oust him from the country as an undesirable.—
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While there is no vaccine to prevent the common cold nor a specific medicine to cure it, there are ways to manage your symptoms while your body fights the illness.—
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Photo: Raul Martinez The protests follow Trump’s ongoing slashing of the federal workforce, as well as his tariff announcement earlier this week, which prompted an uproar and caused the stock market to plummet.—
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What Happens Next Organizers hope the nationwide protests will sway lawmakers on certain issues.—
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“Quibble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quibble. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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