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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 quibbling
 詭辭

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Quib·ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quibbled p. pr. & vb. n. Quibbling ]
 1. To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate.
 2. To pun; to practice punning.
 Syn: -- To cavil; shuffle; equivocate; trifle.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 quibbling
      adj : quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers
            and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and
            carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily
            nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no
            patience with quibbling critics" [syn: caviling, carping,
             nitpicking, pettifogging]