Crossword-Solution: QUIBBLING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Quibbling | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Quibble |
We have 9 clues for the answer “QUIBBLING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Arguing like children | 1 answer |
| AFFECTIVE logic | 7 answers |
| DEBATING point | 7 answers |
| hairsplitting | 7 answers |
| CASUISTRY | 20 answers |
| sophistry | 24 answers |
| illogicality | 43 answers |
| Quibble | 50 answers |
| rationalization | 50 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with QUIBBLING (5)
Then Mord went to the court, and took witness, and swore an oath that the greater part of the inquest was rightly summoned, and said then that he had set the prosecution on its feet again, and then he went on, "And so our foes shall have honour from something else than from this, that we have here taken a great false step." Then there was a great roar that Mord handled the suit well; but it was said that Flosi and his men betook them only to quibbling and wrong.
There's no chance for any legal quibbling in that--IS there?” “That's about as straight as he could put it,” Good Indian agreed, his face losing a little of its anxiety.
For Stilpo, prince of sophists, having silenced him by some quibbling puzzle of logic, Ptolemy surnamed him Chronos the Slow.
Then she was in the middle of a newspaper correspondence with a rural dean in which she had already proved him guilty of heresy, inconsistency, and unworthy quibbling, and no ordinary consideration would have induced her to discontinue the controversy.
The Protagoras arrived at a sort of hypothetical conclusion, that if 'virtue is knowledge, it can be taught.' In the Euthydemus, Socrates himself offered an example of the manner in which the true teacher may draw out the mind of youth; this was in contrast to the quibbling follies of the Sophists.
Quotes with QUIBBLING (2)
You have no idea how many men are spoiled by what is called education. For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. If Shakespeare had graduated at Oxford, he might have been a quibbling attorney, or a hypocritical parson.
Are you okay with what we ordered?” Angeline asked him. “You didn’t pipe up with any requests.” Neil shook his head, face stoic. He kept his dark hair in a painfully short and efficient haircut. It was the kind of no-nonsense thing the Alchemists would’ve loved. “I can’t waste time quibbling over trivial things like pepperoni and mushrooms. If you’d gone to my school in Devonshire, you’d understand. For one of my sophomore classes, they left us alone on the moors to fend for …
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Appears in: Universal.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2000).