quibble

You can quibble about beginnings, middles and ends but what we're talking about is over a year ago.

You can quibble with the “vast” part, I guess, depending on how you define that word.

Because of a quibble on his part this loathsome thing would ruin his future, dash his hopes to the ground, blacken his life.

He saw that the reason which he had given for disbelief was untenable, and he was too straightforward to quibble about it.

He had hoped for a vigorous denial on Thorpe's part, but this halfway confession seemed to him a mere quibble.

That's a mere quibble, Miss Bridgeman: the association is just the same, and she ought to feel it.

Professor Holcomb was a man of terse, heavy thinking; he spoke what he thought and he did not quibble.