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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: quibbling (0.00959 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to quibbling.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: quibble
berdalih, berkilah, sindiran
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: quibbling
quibbling
adj : quibbling over insignificant details;
“caviling pettifoggers
and quiggling pleaders”-Edmund Burke;
“her nagging and
carping attack”;
“thought her editor unnecessarily
nitpicking”;
“a pettifogging lawyer's mind”;
“had no
patience with quibbling critics” [syn:
caviling,
carping,
nitpicking,
pettifogging]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Quibbling
Quibble
\Quib"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Quibbled; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Quibbling.]
1. To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon
words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or
impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or
discourse; to equivocate.
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2. To pun; to practice punning. --Cudworth.
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Syn: To cavil; shuffle; equivocate; trifle.
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