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: July 29, 2025
\KWIB-ul\ verb
What It Means
To quibble is to argue or complain about small, unimportant things. Quibble can also mean "to evade the point of an argument by making trivial or frivolous objections."
// Why are you quibbling over such a small amount of money?
// People ignored the main point of the speech and quibbled about its length.
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