quibbler
IPA: kwˈɪbɫɝ
noun
- Somebody who quibbles
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Examples of "quibbler" in Sentences
- Muguet, sois pas chicaneur/Muguet, don't be a quibbler
- (I think the title would have been better in the pluperfect: "had had" but I'm an old quibbler).
- Disgruntl Ed - not to quibble with the quibbler, but sewn/sown is not a typo so much as the use of the wrong homonym.
- "The Professional Chef" is so impressive, and its contents so wide-ranging, that it may bring out the professional quibbler in some readers.
- If I could quibble (and I'm nothing if not a quibbler!), let me add one more item on the list: Spend some money, as an organization, learning how to sell.
- A legislative workhorse who shepherded initiatives like gay marriage into law, Mendelson is also kind of a quibbler, which can be irritating to mayors and other ambitious types.
- 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."
- The Timesobit is written strongly enough in the Safire style--in one case he's described as "a Pickwickian quibbler who gleefully pounced on gaffes, inexactitudes, neologisms, misnomers, solecisms and perversely peccant puns"--that it makes you wonder if he drafted it himself.
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