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quibble
noun as in objection, complaint
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verb as in disagree over minor issues
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Example Sentences
"Whilst there isn't much to quibble about in the conclusions reached, notably missing is any focus on the resource issues that are a key part of the context to those delays and failures," she said.
Eliot — no stranger to feline alter egos — responded earnestly to a poetic quibble.
My quibbles with the ending are too close to spoilers to cite outright.
But she dismissed arguments that regular sugar is less processed as "completely quibbling", noting that both products require stripping out fibre and other nutritional benefits.
Yet quibbling would seem as tweedy as arguing that the film is peddling both nostalgia and anemoia — a longing for an era one never knew firsthand.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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