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

He is no splitter of hairs, no quibbler.

From King of the Khyber Rifles by Mundy, Talbot

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

Thus did the metaphysical poet resemble the quibbler exercising precisely the same tyranny over ideas, which the latter practised upon sounds only.

From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by Saintsbury, George

I dismiss the fatalist as a quibbler and play on.

From The Boss of Little Arcady by Wilson, Harry Leon