1) Argue 2) Bargain 3) Brabble 4) Cavil 5) Equivocalness 6) Hedge 7) Nit 8) Nitpick 9) Pettifog 10) Prevaricate 11) Quiddity 12) Split hairs
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1) Argue about a trivial matter 2) Argue over petty things 3) Be picky 4) Carp 5) Cavil 6) Complain 7) Equivocation 8) Evasion 9) Literary technique 10) Niggle 11) Petty complaint 12) Prevaricate 13) Quiddity 14) Split hairs
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[plot device] In terms of fiction, a quibble is a plot device, used to fulfill the exact verbal conditions of an agreement in order to avoid the intended meaning. Typically quibbles are used in legal bargains and, in fantasy, magically enforced ones. In one of the best known examples, William Shakespeare used a quibble in The Merchant of Ve...
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• (n.) A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil. • (v. i.) To pun; to practice punning. • (n.) A pun; a low conceit. • (v. i.) To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifl...
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Quib'ble intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Quibbled ;
present participle & verbal noun Quibbling .]
1. To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertin...
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Quib'ble noun [ Probably from
quib ,
quip , but influenced by
quillet , or
quiddity .]
1. A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil. « Quibbles have no place in the search after truth.»
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try to avoid by sophisticationÂ
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[
n] - an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections 2. [v] - evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections 3. [v] - argue over petty things
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quiddity noun an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
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[SAT terms] argue over petty things
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[Lesser known words] argue over petty things
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evade the truth of a point by raising irrelevant objections
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