Словарь синонимов английского языка - quibble
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Quibble
quibble
(v) 1. equivocate, split hairs, evade, be evasive, palter, chop logic, bandy words, cavil, pettifog, Colloq nit-pick: While people continued to be kept in slavery, the politicians quibbled over the difference between 'liberty' and 'freedom'. -(n) 2. quibbling, equivocation, hair-splitting, splitting hairs, evasion, paltering, sophistry, Colloq nit-picking: Lawyers often become involved in a quibble over the mot juste and forget their clients. 3. cavil, sophism, subtlety, nicety: It's a quibble whether you say 'either' and 'neither' to rhyme with 'peek' or 'pike'.
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I. n.1. Evasion, cavil, subterfuge, pretence, subtlety, quirk, shift, prevarication, equivocation, sophism, quiddity, trifling nicety.2. Pun, clinch, calembourg, play upon words.II. v. n.1. Cavil, shuffle, prevaricate, equivocate, practise evasion, evade the truth, trifle, shift.2. Pun, play upon words. ...Словарь синонимов английского языка 2
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