[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

quibble \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.
      1913 webster

   2. to pun; to practice punning. --cudworth.
      1913 webster

   syn: to cavil; shuffle; equivocate; trifle.
        1913 webster
see also:
quibbled quibbling 

[2] : 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
see also:
caviling carping nitpicking pettifogging 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

75 moby thesaurus words for "quibbling":
   adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices,
   bad press, bickering, boggling, captious, captiousness, carping,
   cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chicane, chicanery, choplogic,
   critical, criticism, cynical, dodging, equivocation, equivocatory,
   evasion, evasive, exception, faultfinding, fencing, flak,
   hairsplitting, hedging, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism,
   hypercritical, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation,
   knock, logic-chopping, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking,
   obloquy, overcritical, overcriticalness, paltering, parrying,
   pestering, pettifoggery, pettifogging, petty, picayune,
   prevarication, priggishness, pussyfooting, quibble, rap,
   reflection, reproachfulness, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping,
   slam, stricture, subterfuge, swipe, taking exception,
   tergiversation, trichoschistic, trichoschistism, trifling, trivial,
   ultracritical

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