'Quibbling' definitions:
Definition of 'Quibbling'
From: GCIDE
- Quibble \Quib"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quibbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Quibbling.]
- 1. To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To pun; to practice punning. --Cudworth. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To cavil; shuffle; equivocate; trifle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'quibbling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adverse criticism,
- animadversion,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- choplogic,
- critical,
- criticism,
- cynical,
- dodging,
- equivocation,
- equivocatory,
- evasion,
- evasive,
- exception,
- faultfinding,
- fencing,
- flak,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercritical,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- imputation,
- knock,
- logic-chopping,
- nagging,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- obloquy,
- overcritical,
- overcriticalness,
- paltering,
- parrying,
- pestering,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- petty,
- picayune,
- prevarication,
- priggishness,
- pussyfooting,
- quibble,
- rap,
- reflection,
- reproachfulness,
- shifting,
- shuffling,
- sidestepping,
- slam,
- stricture,
- subterfuge,
- swipe,
- taking exception,
- tergiversation,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- ultracritical