11 examples of quibblers in sentences

I dismiss the fatalist as a quibbler and play on.

Now there is no dispute, unless there be other quibblers.

But in the movings after each eight are dealt, I shall consciously choose and judge, which is pure free willor an imitation of it sufficiently colorable to satisfy any, but quibblers.

The very Sophists, whose ignorance and pretension he exposed, looked upon him as a quibbler; although there were someso severely trained was the Grecian mindwho saw the drift of his questions, and admired his skill.

Although studying law only that he might have an academic degree, he enjoyed a reputation for diligence, and as a logician in the scholastic way had no cause to envy the most frenzied quibblers of the University faculty.

A QUIBBLER Is a juggler of words, that shows tricks with them, to make them appear what they were not meant for and serve two senses at once, like one that plays on two Jew's trumps.

I can discuss on both sides of those names as glibly as any other modern quibbler.

Thus had confusion been brought to the last quibbler in Zion.

Thus did the metaphysical poet resemble the quibbler exercising precisely the same tyranny over ideas, which the latter practised upon sounds only.

So that here I need only tell you, that this ill-starred, good-natur'd, improvident man returned to Dublin, unhinged from all favour at court, and even banished from the Castle: But still he remained a punster, a quibbler, a fiddler, and a wit.

Other quibblers maintained that the Redeemer had had no body at all and that this expression of the holy books must be taken figuratively, while Tertullian put forth his famous, semi-materialistic axiom: "Only that which is not, has no body; everything which is, has a body fitting it."

11 examples of  quibblers  in sentences