quibbler

Example Sentences

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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

Any quibbler can twist the meaning of words, while only those who think the thought can understand.

From The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel by Miller, John Maurice

Thus had confusion been brought to the last quibbler in Zion.

From The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West by Wilson, Harry Leon

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 Landor, Walter Savage

I can discuss on both sides of those names as glibly as any other modern quibbler.

From The Bent Twig by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield