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quibbling
adjective as in carping
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Weak matches
adjective as in trifling
Strong match
Example Sentences
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.
Freda Levenson, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, called the continued litigation “quibbling about extraneous matters” in an emailed statement, and disagreed that such issues have ever been a problem before in this case.
In some places that are slightly more exurban or rural, some people were quibbling with the politics in the sense that people were siding with the folks in the meeting over me a little bit.
But it is what it is and the only chance for a positive outcome is for Democrats, independents and traditional Republicans to stop quibbling, put on our big-boy pants and work hard to send the man from Mar-a-Lago back into permanent retirement in the humid Florida sunshine.
The emails show senior executives quibbling over budgets and head counts while also acknowledging regulatory threats related to their handling of teenage users.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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