Quibbling, cavilling.

Full of quiddities or equivocations; characterized by verbal niceties or quibbles. rare after 17th cent.

Of a person: that (habitually) makes quibbles. Of an argument, comment, etc.: characterized by quibbles; of the nature of a quibble. Cf. quibble, n.

Of the nature of a quirk (quirk, n.1 1a); quibbling. Obsolete. rare.

That employs chicanery; petty, deceitful, quibbling. Also: characterized by chicanery.

That raises petty objections or engages in argument about trivialities; = quibbling, adj.

Characterized by quibbles; of the nature of a quibble; quibbling.