Quibbling

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.
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   2. To pun; to practice punning. --Cudworth.
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   Syn: To cavil; shuffle; equivocate; trifle.
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75 Moby Thesaurus words for "quibbling":
      adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices,
      bad press, bickering, boggling, captious, captiousness, carping,
      cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chicane, chicanery, choplogic,
      critical, criticism, cynical, dodging, equivocation, equivocatory,
      evasion, evasive, exception, faultfinding, fencing, flak,
      hairsplitting, hedging, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism,
      hypercritical, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation,
      knock, logic-chopping, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking,
      obloquy, overcritical, overcriticalness, paltering, parrying,
      pestering, pettifoggery, pettifogging, petty, picayune,
      prevarication, priggishness, pussyfooting, quibble, rap,
      reflection, reproachfulness, shifting, shuffling, sidestepping,
      slam, stricture, subterfuge, swipe, taking exception,
      tergiversation, trichoschistic, trichoschistism, trifling, trivial,
      ultracritical