- caviling, carping, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibbling - 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"
Antonym: uncritical (indirect, via critical)
- quibble - evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections
--1 is one way to hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun quibble1, noun quibbler1
Somebody ----s
- quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble - argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"
--2 is one way to argue, contend, debate, fence
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun quibbler1
Sam and Sue quibble
Sam wants to quibble with Sue