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quibble
noun as in objection, complaint
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak matches
verb as in disagree over minor issues
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Even with minor quibbles like the lack of an SD card slot and having to buy one or two necessary accessories, the Galaxy S21 Ultra is the most well-rounded flagship Android phone, making it the best choice for most people.
Forget any semantic quibbles over the meaning of the term “insurrection.”
Labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein says Big Tech has a tendency to lean on its transformational image to paper over any labor complaints and minimize them as quibbles that are impeding the evolution of the world.
Michael Dobbs makes a splendid case that Nixon was “an American tragedy,” though I have a quibble.
While it does take a few jujitsu-like maneuvers to fold the rear seats completely flat, this is a minor quibble.
A weird thing to quibble about, considering he is a moon landing denier.
There are several other things in the Wiki vs. doctors article to quibble about, which the authors generously note.
This quibble aside, “Breakfast with Mugabe” offers food for thought.
You can quibble about beginnings, middles and ends but what we're talking about is over a year ago.
You can quibble with the “vast” part, I guess, depending on how you define that word.
Because of a quibble on his part this loathsome thing would ruin his future, dash his hopes to the ground, blacken his life.
He saw that the reason which he had given for disbelief was untenable, and he was too straightforward to quibble about it.
He had hoped for a vigorous denial on Thorpe's part, but this halfway confession seemed to him a mere quibble.
That's a mere quibble, Miss Bridgeman: the association is just the same, and she ought to feel it.
Professor Holcomb was a man of terse, heavy thinking; he spoke what he thought and he did not quibble.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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