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Quibbled

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.

  2. To pun; to practice punning.
    --Cudworth.

    Syn: To cavil; shuffle; equivocate; trifle.

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quibbled

vb. (en-past of: quibble)

Usage examples of "quibbled".

Union agreed to their proposals in principle, professed interest, talked and discussed, sent them to this and that committee, quibbled on points of protocol.

They quibbled now over some points of secondary agreements, for the future of Pell, which Jacoby professed to hand to Union.