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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

He is no splitter of hairs, no quibbler.

From King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy

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

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

From The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher




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