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Quibbler

noun
1.
A disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections.  Synonyms: caviler, caviller, pettifogger.





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"Quibbler" Quotes from Famous Books



... carping mathematician should dispute his figures, he had declared that if, by any miscalculation, the earth's surface should not suffice for the Saints and their Gentile slaves, the Lord "would build a gallery around the earth." Thus had confusion been brought to the last quibbler ...
— The Lions of the Lord - A Tale of the Old West • Harry Leon Wilson
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... exposure; and Wit, I am sorry to say, held the lowest place in his household. He sadly mistook the qualities of his mind in attempting the facetious; or, rather, he fancied he possessed one quality more than belonged to him. 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. It is no small service to the community to turn into ridicule the grave impostors, who are contending which of them shall ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor
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... within hundreds of miles of works of reference; but these figures are substantially correct. The quibbler, however, is welcome to ...
— Confiscation, An Outline • William Greenwood
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Words linked to "Quibbler" :   malcontent, quibble


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