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Quibble vs Repudiate - What's the difference?

quibble | repudiate |

In lang=en terms the difference between quibble and repudiate

is that quibble is to complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner while repudiate is to be repudiated.

As verbs the difference between quibble and repudiate

is that quibble is to complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner while repudiate is to reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.

As a noun quibble

is a trivial or minor complaint, objection or argument.

quibble

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A trivial or minor complaint, objection or argument.
    • He harped on his quibble about how the dark red paint should be described as carmine rather than burgundy.
  • A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; a cavil.
  • * I. Watts
    • Quibbles have no place in the search after truth.
  • (obsolete) A pun.

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    Verb

    (quibbl)
  • To complain or argue in a trivial or petty manner.
    • They are constantly quibbling over insignificant details.

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    repudiate

    English

    Verb

  • To reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.
  • To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.
  • To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
  • To be repudiated.

    • Quotations

    : "Chaucer . . . not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it" : "If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America." 1848': '... she dictated to Briggs a furious answer in her own native tongue, '''repudiating Mrs. Rawdon Crawley altogether...' — William Makepeace Thackeray, '' , Chapter XXXIV. "The seventeenth century sometimes seems for more than a moment to gather up and to digest into its art all the experience of the human mind which (from the same point of view) the later centuries seem to have been partly engaged in repudiating ." , Andrew Marvell . "The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution." --

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