English-French translations for quibble

• argutie
  Les arguties de complexité et de multilinguisme ne sont pas recevables. The quibbles about the complex issues and the many languages involved are not acceptable.
• chicaner
  Pour cette raison, nous ne devrions pas chicaner sur ce sujet. For this reason, we should not quibble over this.
  Il va sans dire que certaines choses auraient pu être ajoutées ou abandonnées et que les gens trouveront toujours des raisons de chicaner. It goes without saying that there are certain things that could have been added or left out, and that people will always find something to quibble about.
  Je ne cherche pas à chicaner à ce sujet; il est un fait que nous devons améliorer notre mode de législation, et supprimer des lois superflues. Je suis entièrement d’accord avec cela. I have no quibble with the substance of this; it is indeed the case that we have to make a better job of making laws, and that superfluous ones need to be withdrawn.
• chinoiser
• chipoter
• enculer les mouches
• ergoter
  Je ne vais pas ergoter sur ce qu’ont fait lessocialistesen poursuivant la mise en œuvre de leur programme. I have no quibble with the Socialists for what they did in pursuing their agenda.
  On pourrait ergoter sur la détermination du nombre précis de réfugiés pouvant être considéré comme une "urgence". One could quibble about what particular number of refugees could be defined as an 'emergency'.
• pinailler

Definition of quibble

• A pun.
• An objection or argument based on an ambiguity of wording or similar trivial circumstance; a minor complaint.
• To complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner

Examples

• He harped on his quibble about how the dark red paint should be described as carmine rather than burgundy
• They are constantly quibbling over insignificant details.

Related words

• quibbler
• quibbling
• squibbling
• to quibble