Sentence examples for Semantic quibble from inspiring English sources
This is more than a semantic quibble.
Reminiscent of other controversies in the Clinton administration over language, Mrs. Clinton's lawyers argued that the issue "boils down to a semantic quibble".
His semantic quibble had the effect of corroding Japan's gold-standard apology for its imperial warmongering and atrocities, the 1995 Murayama statement.
But yes, that's a semantic quibble: We all know the major reason the money's not coming back is to avoid that taxation.
There is a semantic quibble possible in that the companies can't hold the money offshore in order to avoid US corporate income tax because the IRS doesn't allow that.
This is not a semantic quibble.
Is this semantic quibbling?
But whether diet refers to typical food intake or an eating system is semantic quibbling.
Semantic quibbles aside, the plasma opens up new avenues of research.
The script sometimes plays artfully with the banality of these exchanges, especially in the semantic quibbles between Grange and Bromley.
