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
But he still objected to my reading that book, called me a contumacious quibbler too fond of disputation, and ordered me to return it to the accommodating owner.
From The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir
Joe Hume himself could not have questioned one solitary item in our budget: and I defy the veriest quibbler on a grand jury to 'traverse,' a spangle on a pair of our theatrical smallclothes.
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever
Quibblers possibly may arise and present Johnson's definition of network—"anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances with interstices between the intersections"—but with the quibbler we have no time to dally.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Elbert Hubbard
Thus had confusion been brought to the last quibbler in Zion.
From The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West by Harry Leon Wilson
