Recently, the "quibble" magazine released its 2010 top ten buzzwords.
Who can resist lines like these, or cares to quibble whether they can be defined as verse?
Each ecological disaster or problem traces its cause back to carbon. To quibble about this is really fiddling while Rome burns.
The crucial moment of the film is where, I admit, I have a quibble: it is gripping and even moving when Harry realises what his destiny is, and sets out to fulfil it.
To quibble, especially in bargaining.
Don't quibble about unimportant things with me.
Still, this is a small quibble about a deeply intelligent, provocative book.
A pragmatist might contend that this is no time to quibble about economic theories. We need measures that get proven results.
One small quibble is the affectation in the title that this period of California's history began in 1950 and ended in 1963 (coincidentally the year of President Kennedy's assassination).
To see or make trivial distinctions; quibble.
"Why are you helping Katie? Don't quibble about Mr. Booker!" the headmaster doesn't want to hear the Booker explanation.
Businessmen quibble that they could better tap fast-growing markets in Asia if the BoJ did more to cheapen the yen.
But this is a minor quibble.
When you quarrel with a close friend, talk about the main dish, don; t quibble over the appetizers.
Those who disparaged the Romeo and Juliet experience, whether they were Shakespeare shunners, or purists, or simply sticks in the mud, might be prepared to quibble over Moulin Rouge.
We can quibble, or we can face the brutal truth that we're being out-educated.
She's only introducing this as a quibble.
The lack of an immediate apology constituted a gross misjudgment in a culture in which corporate executives are expected to apologise swiftly and quibble over fault later .
Try your best to let family harmony flow smoothly. When you quarrel with a close friend, talk about the main dish, don't quibble over the appetizers.
Pedants may quibble that only the DNA of the new beast was actually manufactured in a laboratory; the researchers had to use the shell of an existing bug to get that DNA to do its stuff.
I can't quibble with the first, but as for the second I'm a bit dubious.
Such a quibble did not trouble Livingston and his friends.
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