quibbler
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He is an accomplished résumé padder, an expert with the evasive fallback answer when challenged, a skillful deflector of the awkward question, a quibbler par excellence and just stunningly self-confident.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023
I dismiss the fatalist as a quibbler and play on.
From The Boss of Little Arcady by Harry Leon Wilson
Prēvaricā′tion, the act of quibbling to evade the truth; Prēvar′icātor, one who prevaricates to evade the truth: a quibbler.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Quibblers possibly may arise and present Johnson's definition of network—"anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances with interstices between the intersections"—but with the quibbler we have no time to dally.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Elbert Hubbard
But, if he himself had not been a worse quibbler than any whose writings are come down to us, we might have been gratified by the exposure of wonderful acuteness wretchedly applied.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
