Sentence examples for Semantic quibbling from inspiring English sources
But whether diet refers to typical food intake or an eating system is semantic quibbling.
Is this semantic quibbling?
Differentiating between fear and lack of hope might seem like semantic quibbling, but emotion researchers have shown these distinctions to be meaningful and consequential, Halevy says.
Over four days in Kingston, I hear every justification of homophobia imaginable, everything from semantic quibbling ("We can't be homophobic," one person tells me, "because phobia means fear and we aren't afraid of them") to the belief that the Stop Murder Music campaign is a kind of racist post-colonial plot.
The chief bone of contention was over the "school" that Kitaj had assembled-a personal selection of artists who had chosen to live in the city-and his coinage was subjected to semantic quibbling which has not ceased to this day.
Her reframing may seem like semantic quibbling.
This is more than a semantic quibble.
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.
Reminiscent of other controversies in the Clinton administration over language, Mrs. Clinton's lawyers argued that the issue "boils down to a semantic quibble".
