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quibbling

adjective as in carping

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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.

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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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For much of the production, directed by George C. Wolfe, I was quibbling and quarreling with the reigning queen of Broadway.

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But instead of grounding its drones and silencing its guns, it's quibbling over how a still non-existent ceasefire might be monitored.

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The ongoing quibbling over whether "The Bear" is a comedy or a drama received a new splash of accelerant when the FX series landed 23 Emmy Award nominations on Wednesday.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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