quibbles
- present tense form of quibble (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Forget the quibbles about not being pleasing on the eye or too many set-pieces.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
While some of the quibbles with ServiceNow’s latest earnings are more company-specific, including margin impacts related to recent deal closures, other aspects may have wider implications for the sector.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 23, 2026
Next, the FDA quibbles that patients who had every tumor injected had higher remission rates than those who had only some.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
And the group commutations, whatever one thinks of them as criminal justice policy, suffered from defects stemming from hasty execution that open the door to legal quibbles and political exploitation.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2025
This attitude was reinforced over the next few years, when a succession of critics, clearly Newton’s intellectual inferiors, raised a host of quibbles about his work, which showed their own ignorance more than anything else.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
