- A
quibble may
refer to: a
trivial objection a pun, or play on
words Quibble (plot device), in
narratology Quibble (computing), a quad
nibble This disambiguation...
- Look up
quibble in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In fiction, a
quibble is a plot
device used to
fulfill the
exact verbal conditions of an agreement...
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Quibble Island is a
river island in the city of Chennai,
Tamil Nadu, India.
Prior to
British colonization, it was not an
island but a
network of inter-tidal...
- 2011 an
Internet Draft explored various alternatives for
hextet such as
quibble,
short for "quad nibble". In
response to this draft,
author Trefor Davies...
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author may use
scare quotes not to
convey alarm, but to
signal a
semantic quibble.
Scare quotes may
suggest or
create a
problematization with the
words set...
- film three-and-a-half out of four stars,
saying that
despite his
usual quibbles regarding Nolan's
excessive dialogue and its lack of a
sense of composition...
- has been
ratified by time and by practice, and
there is
little point in
quibbling with it. Of course, the
president also
takes an oath to
support the Constitution...
- chicaner,
which means "to
create difficulties" or "to
dispute pointlessly", "
quibble",
which is also the root of the
English noun chicanery. The
Spanish verb...
-
societal rumblings (allegoricaly speaking) -It
would be
churlish of me to
quibble! Green:
Judging from your
response to Jon Swinghammer, you consciously...
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awareness for
their cause, but the
world community was
uninterested in
quibbling over the
specifics of
colonial independence. The 1960s were a time of...
