quibbled
past simple and past participle ofquibble
quibble
verb[I]
disapprovinguk/ˈkwɪb.əl/us/ˈkwɪb.əl/toargueabout, or say youdisapproveof, something that is notimportant:
There's nopointquibblingabout/overacoupleofdollars.
Compare
bickerdisapproving
Complaining
- be/go on atsomeoneidiom
- bellyaching
- bewail
- brouhaha
- bugger, sod, etc. this for a lark!idiom
- complain
- complaining
- create/kick up/raise a stinkidiom
- gnashing of teethidiom
- grouch
- make noisesidiom
- mutter
- nark
- raise a rumpusidiom
- rumpus
- squawk
- start on atsomeone
- vituperation
- whinging
- whiny
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Arguing & disagreeing
Examplesofquibbled
quibbled
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Either theyquibbledand said it was all dealt with by the law anyhow, or they ran away from it.
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Hequibbledwith our reference to worsening unemployment.
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Hequibbleda good deal before he gave those cases.
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Yet, only too often, it seems that we havequibbledover the amount of extra allowances to be paid to those officers.
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Many of the points that werequibbledwith tonight were straight copies of previous legislation that changed nothing.
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Some might havequibbledabout the timing, but the most important thing is that it was established.
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I have notquibbledover the drafting of the amendments.
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They havequibbledandquibbled, one after the other.
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That was possibly one reason why some peoplequibbledabout this venture.
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I gather—but not beyond all doubt, because they havequibbledaway so merrily for so many hours—that they are opposed to the compulsory element in the standstill.
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He sometimesquibbledover details in the script.
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- A-OK
- a-ok
- a/one hundred percent
- a-one-hundred-percent
- aorta
- aortic
- aortic aneurysm
- aortic-aneurysm
- aortic coarctation
- aortic-coarctation
- aortic root surgery
- aortic-root-surgery
- aortic stenosis
- aortic-stenosis
- aortic valve
- aortic valve disease
- aortic-valve-disease
- AP
- APA
- apace
- Apache
- a pack of lies
- a pack rat
- a-pack-rat
- APACS