Quibbling

I also expect some quibbling about the relative efficacy of - I believe this can be explained by a difference in the severity of disease between the patient groups, but I'm sure it will come up.

They were notoriously quarrelsome, quibbling over punctuation, in particular the use of semicolons.

This quibbling distinction isn’t just semantics.

Despite the quibbling and distractions, we know that climate change contributes to environmental disasters like fire, anddiseases such as Covid-19.

The key thing here is not quibbling over words or terms but just to make Sander's positions very clear and totally destroy Trump's smears about he being a socialist and that the inference is that this is next to communism.

Macron meets Johnson in Paris: Macron calls the backstop "not just legal quibbling" but "genuine, indispensable guarantees".

That might sound like a lot of quibbling for a three-and-a-half-star review, but the stuff that thrills works so exceedingly well, you just kind of take it and run with it.

The word they are quibbling with is “invasion”.

True, Rosenstein could insist that he technically only said that there was no evidence in the original indictment, but that’s the kind of legalistic quibbling that, in my experience, the public loathes.

There was not a single incident of a protest or any unsportsmanlike quibbling or fighting for points which I may say, marred some of the other civilian competitions at the Olympic Games.