Evade vs Quibble - What's the difference?
evade | quibble | Related terms |
To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument.
To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
A trivial or minor complaint, objection or argument.
A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; a cavil.
* I. Watts
(obsolete) A pun.
To complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner.
Evade is a related term of quibble.
As verbs the difference between evade and quibble
is that evade is while quibble is to complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner.As a noun quibble is
a trivial or minor complaint, objection or argument.evade
English
Verb
(evad)- The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles. — .
- Evading from perils. — .
- Unarmed they might / Have easily, as spirits evaded swift / By quick contraction or remove. — .
- ''The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these ... ways. — .
Synonyms
* equivocate * shuffle * dodgeDerived terms
* evadible * evasible * evasion * evasiveSee also
* prevaricate ----quibble
English
Noun
(en noun)- He harped on his quibble about how the dark red paint should be described as carmine rather than burgundy.
- Quibbles have no place in the search after truth.
Synonyms
* SeeVerb
(quibbl)- They are constantly quibbling over insignificant details.