Definitions
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- adjective
Fussy ;quibbling . - adjective Involving
quibbles . - adjective
Petty ;trifling .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I would only quibbly and say that being truly illusive or anonymous online is very difficult, not impossible.
Waldo Jaquith - You’re never anonymous on the internet. 2007
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But everything else was very quibbly – he seemed to want to coast on having been opposed to “the dopey idea” of invading Iraq but not willing to see that we need to leave.
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We give notice that thousands of our most complacently puttering, most quibbly and fuddly politicians are going to be taken out by the people, lifted up by the people, and dropped kindly but firmly over the edge of the world.
The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak Gerald Stanley Lee 1903
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