Sentence examples for quibbler from inspiring English sources

This produced the sense "captious or fallacious reasoner or quibbler," which has remained dominant to the present day.

A quibbler might point out that some artists in the exhibition are not, strictly speaking, Pop Artists.

'The new, or at least the young novel,' wrote Henry James in a famous essay of 1914, 'is up and doing with the best faith and the highest spirits in the world.' In fact, James, always the luxurious quibbler, went on to drape his chosen subjects, D H Lawrence and Compton Mackenzie, in exquisite reservations.

It also tapped into the lighter side of the dour-looking Mr. Safire: a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns, like "the president's populism" and "the first lady's momulism," written during the Carter presidency.

I pointed out that other superintendents don't preside over decimated districts (all right, I admit it, I'm a quibbler).

But these are quibbles.

Some argued that Merkel had been right to stick by her insistence on reform as a quid pro quo for bailouts, but quibbled with the manner she had gone about her business, failing to sell her policies effectively to her partners in Europe.

And if the organisers had taken care to ensure that was the case by including judo in this year's programme (accounting for a quarter of Scotland's total medal tally) it would be churlish to quibble.

With a view to ironing out such technical quibbles, a group of MPs led by Greg Mulholland is pleading for more time.

And with four years as her nation's chief diplomat on the world stage under her belt, Mrs Clinton's personal gravitas is even harder to quibble with than it might have been in 2008.

"God as witness, they are quibbling over nothing and nonsense.