0 past simple and past participle of quibble
1 to argue about, or say you disapprove of, something that is not important:
Either they quibbled and said it was all dealt with by the law anyhow, or they ran away from it.
He quibbled with our reference to worsening unemployment.
He quibbled a good deal before he gave those cases.
Yet, only too often, it seems that we have quibbled over the amount of extra allowances to be paid to those officers.
Many of the points that were quibbled with tonight were straight copies of previous legislation that changed nothing.
Some might have quibbled about the timing, but the most important thing is that it was established.
I have not quibbled over the drafting of the amendments.
They have quibbled and quibbled, one after the other.
