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quibblers

  • 1 criticón

    adj.
    faultfinding, nit-picking, fault-finding, nitpicking.
    m.
    faultfinder, nit-picker, nitpicker, criticizer.
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    1 familiar fault finding, nit-picking, hypercritical
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 familiar fault finder, nit-picker
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    criticón, -ona *
    1.
    ADJ hypercritical, critical, faultfinding

    es muy criticón — he's always finding fault with people, he's hypercritical, he's so critical

    2.
    * * *
    I
    - cona adjetivo (fam & pey) critical, hypercritical
    II
    - cona masculino, femenino (fam & pey) faultfinder
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    = nag, caviller [caviler, -USA], quibbler.
    Ex. No supervisor should be a tiresome nag, but the achievements and failings of a persons's performance deserves mention in a constructive way at timely, regular intervals.
    Ex. They attacked him, not as grammarians and philologists, but as quibblers, cavillers; not with arguments, but insults.
    Ex. They attacked him, not as grammarians and philologists, but as quibblers, cavillers; not with arguments, but insults.
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    I
    - cona adjetivo (fam & pey) critical, hypercritical
    II
    - cona masculino, femenino (fam & pey) faultfinder
    * * *
    = nag, caviller [caviler, -USA], quibbler.

    Ex: No supervisor should be a tiresome nag, but the achievements and failings of a persons's performance deserves mention in a constructive way at timely, regular intervals.

    Ex: They attacked him, not as grammarians and philologists, but as quibblers, cavillers; not with arguments, but insults.
    Ex: They attacked him, not as grammarians and philologists, but as quibblers, cavillers; not with arguments, but insults.

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    1
    (chismoso): ¡qué criticón es! he's such a terrible gossip ( colloq)
    2 (quisquilloso) critical, hypercritical
    es tan criticona she always finds fault with everything, she's so critical o hypercritical
    masculine, feminine
    1
    (chismoso): es un criticón he's a terrible gossip ( colloq)
    2 (quisquilloso) faultfinder
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    criticón
    ◊ - cona adjetivo (fam &

    pey) critical, hypercritical
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino (fam & pey) faultfinder
    criticón,-ona adj pey critical: mis colegas son muy criticones, my colleagues are very critical
    ' criticón' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    criticona
    English:
    faultfinding
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    criticón, -ona
    ♦ adj
    nit-picking, hypercritical;
    no seas tan criticón don't be so nit-picking, stop criticizing all the time
    ♦ nm,f
    nit-picker;
    es un criticón he finds fault with everything, he does nothing but criticize
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    fam
    I adj nit-picking
    II m, criticona f nit-picker
    * * *
    criticón, - cona adj, mpl - cones fam : hypercritical, captious
    criticón, - cona n, mpl - cones fam : faultfinder, critic

    Spanish-English dictionary > criticón

  • 2 objetor

    m.
    objector.
    * * *
    1 objecting, dissenting
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 objector
    \
    objetor de conciencia conscientious objector
    * * *
    objetor, -a
    SM / F objector
    * * *
    - tora masculino, femenino objector
    * * *
    = objector, caviller [caviler, -USA].
    Ex. Objectors to a major wind farm plan say developers have exaggerated its green benefits.
    Ex. They attacked him, not as grammarians and philologists, but as quibblers, cavillers; not with arguments, but insults.
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    * objetor de conciencia = conscientious objector.
    * * *
    - tora masculino, femenino objector
    * * *
    = objector, caviller [caviler, -USA].

    Ex: Objectors to a major wind farm plan say developers have exaggerated its green benefits.

    Ex: They attacked him, not as grammarians and philologists, but as quibblers, cavillers; not with arguments, but insults.
    * objetor de conciencia = conscientious objector.

    * * *
    masculine, feminine
    objector
    Compuesto:
    objetor de conciencia, objetora de conciencia
    masculine, feminine conscientious objector
    * * *

    objetor
    ◊ - tora sustantivo masculino, femenino

    objector;
    objetor de conciencia conscientious objector
    objetor,-ora
    I sustantivo masculino y femenino objector
    objetor de conciencia, conscientious objector
    II adjetivo objecting, dissenting

    ' objetor' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    objetora
    English:
    conscientious
    - objector
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    objetor, -ora nm,f
    objector
    objetor de conciencia conscientious objector
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    m, objetora f objector
    * * *
    : objector
    objetor de conciencia: conscientious objector

    Spanish-English dictionary > objetor

  • 3 quisquilloso

    adj.
    touchy, delicate, jumpy, finicky.
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    1 finicky, fussy, touchy
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 fusspot
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    ADJ
    1) (=susceptible) touchy, oversensitive; (=irritable) irritable; (=perfeccionista) pernickety *, persnickety (EEUU) *, choosy, fussy
    2) (=preocupado por nimiedades) too bothered about petty details
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo (meticuloso, exigente) fussy, picky (colloq); ( susceptible) touchy
    * * *
    = fastidious, nitpicking [nit-picking], irritable, fussy [fussier -comp., fussiest -sup.], quibbler, finicky [finickier -comp., finickiest -sup.], fusspot, fussbudget, picky [pickier -comp., pickiest -sup.].
    Ex. Some of them will be sufficiently bizarre to suit the most fastidious connoisseur of the present artifacts of civilization.
    Ex. Librarians are expected, by their popular media image, to be fussy, nit-picking, pedants.
    Ex. 'Searching' or even 'ordering' would be better, so long as we didn't imply by either of them an ' irritable reaching after fact and reason'.
    Ex. Librarians are expected, by their popular media image, to be fussy, nit-picking, pedants.
    Ex. They attacked him, not as grammarians and philologists, but as quibblers, cavillers; not with arguments, but insults.
    Ex. After all, even a healthy cat can become finicky when offered an unfamiliar meal.
    Ex. As for Steve, he traded his days as a bachelor for life with a fusspot.
    Ex. And they're playing an odd couple reminiscent of Neil Simon's classic pairing of a fussbudget and a slob.
    Ex. If by chance she gets close to a boy that she likes she suddenly get very picky and think of all his negative points.
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    * ser demasiado quisquilloso = put + too fine a point on, split + hairs.
    * ser muy quisquilloso = be picky.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo (meticuloso, exigente) fussy, picky (colloq); ( susceptible) touchy
    * * *
    = fastidious, nitpicking [nit-picking], irritable, fussy [fussier -comp., fussiest -sup.], quibbler, finicky [finickier -comp., finickiest -sup.], fusspot, fussbudget, picky [pickier -comp., pickiest -sup.].

    Ex: Some of them will be sufficiently bizarre to suit the most fastidious connoisseur of the present artifacts of civilization.

    Ex: Librarians are expected, by their popular media image, to be fussy, nit-picking, pedants.
    Ex: 'Searching' or even 'ordering' would be better, so long as we didn't imply by either of them an ' irritable reaching after fact and reason'.
    Ex: Librarians are expected, by their popular media image, to be fussy, nit-picking, pedants.
    Ex: They attacked him, not as grammarians and philologists, but as quibblers, cavillers; not with arguments, but insults.
    Ex: After all, even a healthy cat can become finicky when offered an unfamiliar meal.
    Ex: As for Steve, he traded his days as a bachelor for life with a fusspot.
    Ex: And they're playing an odd couple reminiscent of Neil Simon's classic pairing of a fussbudget and a slob.
    Ex: If by chance she gets close to a boy that she likes she suddenly get very picky and think of all his negative points.
    * ser demasiado quisquilloso = put + too fine a point on, split + hairs.
    * ser muy quisquilloso = be picky.

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    1
    (meticuloso, exigente): es terriblemente quisquilloso y no le gusta que nadie toque sus cosas he is terribly particular and he doesn't like anyone touching his things
    ningún hotel le vino bien, es tan quisquilloso none of the hotels suited him, he's so hard to please o so choosy o so fussy
    2 (susceptible) touchy
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    quisquilloso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo (meticuloso, exigente) fussy, picky (colloq);


    ( susceptible) touchy
    quisquilloso,-a adjetivo & sustantivo masculino y femenino
    1 (meticuloso) fussy
    2 (suspicaz) touchy
    ' quisquilloso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    quisquillosa
    - chinche
    - fastidioso
    English:
    fussy
    - nit
    - picky
    * * *
    quisquilloso, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [detallista] pernickety
    2. [susceptible] touchy, oversensitive
    ♦ nm,f
    1. [detallista] nit-picker
    2. [susceptible] touchy person;
    ser un quisquilloso to be touchy
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    adj touchy
    * * *
    quisquilloso, -sa adj
    : fastidious, fussy
    quisquilloso, -sa n
    : fussy person, fussbudget
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    1. (exigente) fussy [comp. fussier; superl. fussiest]
    2. (susceptible) touchy [comp. touchier; superl. touchiest]

    Spanish-English dictionary > quisquilloso

См. также в других словарях:

  • quibblers — quib·bler || kwɪblÉ™(r) n. one who evades an argument by using ambiguous language; one who makes equivocal comments; one who makes petty criticisms …   English contemporary dictionary

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