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quibblesome

quibblesome adjective: characterised or marked by quibbling.

Adjective

quibblesome (comparative more quibblesome, superlative most quibblesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by quibbling
    • My equivocation may seem quibblesome, but I can attest, from my personal experience of reading certain poetry, that this can happen; [...]2016, R. Malamud, Poetic Animals and Animal Souls

Forms of quibblesome

comparativemore quibblesome
superlativemost quibblesome

Origin of quibblesome

From quibble + -some.

Questions about quibblesome

What does quibblesome mean?
Quibblesome means characterised or marked by quibbling.
What part of speech is quibblesome?
Quibblesome is an adjective.

Words near quibblesome in the dictionary

  1. quibble
  2. quibbled
  3. quibbler
  4. quibblers
  5. quibbles
  6. quibblesome
  7. quibbling
  8. quibblingly
  9. quibblings
  10. quibbly
  11. Quiberon

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