quibbling russian

• кля́уза

  petty denunciation, tale-telling complaint, informing

  slander, malicious gossip, backbiting

  intrigue, scheming

  cavil, vexatious litigation, legal quibbling

• придира́вшийся

  nitpicking, fault-finding, quibbling

• вывёртывание

  turning inside out, eversion

  unscrewing, screwing out

  wringing out

  dislocation, wrenching

  evasion, prevarication, quibbling, dodging

Examples

• Том цепля́лся к касающимся его предложе́ниям, в то вре́мя как Мэри, как могла́, стара́лась их перевести́.

  Tom was quibbling about the sentences concerning him, while Mary was doing her best to translate them.

• Он вечно крохоборствует из-за копеек.

  He is always quibbling over pennies.