Word of the Day: QUIBBLE

quibble (noun) - a trivial objection or equivocation; the use of trivial or ambiguous arguments to avoid a point at issue [ kwib-uhl ]

ALTERNATE USES: quibble can also be used as a verb for nitpicking, prevaricating, or making trivial objections.

“They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.” —D. H. Lawrence

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