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Danh từ

sự chơi chữ

sự nói nước đôi; sự nói lảng; sự hay lý sự cùn, sự nguỵ biện
verb

quibbles; quibbled; quibbling

[no obj] :to argue or complain about small, unimportant things - usually + about or over

People ignored the main point of the speech and quibbled about its length.

Why are you quibbling over such a small amount of money?

noun

plural quibbles

[count] :a small complaint or criticism usually about something unimportant

Our only quibble about the trip was that it rained a lot.

a minor quibble
verb

While people continued to be kept in slavery, the politicians quibbled over the difference between 'liberty' and 'freedom'

equivocate

split hairs

evade

be evasive

palter

chop logic

bandy words

cavil

pettifog

Colloq nit-pick

noun

Lawyers often become involved in a quibble over the mot juste and forget their clients

quibbling

equivocation

hair-splitting

splitting hairs

evasion

paltering

sophistry

Colloq nit-picking

It's a quibble whether you say 'either' and 'neither' to rhyme with 'peek' or 'pike'

cavil

sophism

subtlety

nicety

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