quibble 的 2 个定义
- an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.
- the general use of such arguments.
- petty or carping criticism; a minor objection.
quib·bled, quib·bling.
- to equivocate.
- to carp; cavil.
quibble 近义词
objection, complaint
disagree over minor issues
quibble 的近义词 35 个
- bicker
- carp
- spar
- squabble
- waffle
- wrangle
- altercate
- argufy
- avoid
- cavil
- chicane
- criticize
- dispute
- equivocate
- evade
- fence
- flip-flop
- hassle
- pettifog
- pretend
- prevaricate
- shift
- argue over
- blow hot and cold
- catch at straws
- have at it
- hem and haw
- hypercriticize
- make a big thing about
- nit-pick
- paralogize
- put up an argument
- set to
- split hairs
- talk back
quibble 的反义词 6 个
更多quibble例句
- Forget any semantic quibbles over the meaning of the term “insurrection.”
- Labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein says Big Tech has a tendency to lean on its transformational image to paper over any labor complaints and minimize them as quibbles that are impeding the evolution of the world.
- Michael Dobbs makes a splendid case that Nixon was “an American tragedy,” though I have a quibble.
- While it does take a few jujitsu-like maneuvers to fold the rear seats completely flat, this is a minor quibble.
- A weird thing to quibble about, considering he is a moon landing denier.
- There are several other things in the Wiki vs. doctors article to quibble about, which the authors generously note.
- This quibble aside, “Breakfast with Mugabe” offers food for thought.
- You can quibble about beginnings, middles and ends but what we're talking about is over a year ago.
- You can quibble with the “vast” part, I guess, depending on how you define that word.
- Because of a quibble on his part this loathsome thing would ruin his future, dash his hopes to the ground, blacken his life.
- He saw that the reason which he had given for disbelief was untenable, and he was too straightforward to quibble about it.
- He had hoped for a vigorous denial on Thorpe's part, but this halfway confession seemed to him a mere quibble.
- That's a mere quibble, Miss Bridgeman: the association is just the same, and she ought to feel it.
- Professor Holcomb was a man of terse, heavy thinking; he spoke what he thought and he did not quibble.