| 单词 | quibblingly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈquibblingly ˈquibblingly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > wit with words > [adverb] > using puns quib1631 quibblingly1657 punningly1731 paronomastically1813 punnily1866 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > trivial argument, quibble > [adverb] quibblingly1657 1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't Post-script 667 Their old method of talking preachingly, quotingly, and quibblingly. 1901 W. J. Craig King Lear 117 (note) Perhaps ‘roarer’ in Tempest I. i. 18, quibblingly applied to the raging waters. 1998 Evening Standard (Palmerston North, N.Z.) (Nexis) 14 Sept. 8 A remarkably naive legal and quibblingly semantic interpretation of what activities could be said to constitute sexual behaviour. < as lemmas |
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