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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cavil \cav"il\ ka^v"i^l, v. i. imp. p. p. caviled or
cavilled; p. pr. vb. n. caviling or cavilling. l.
cavillari to practice jesting, to censure, fr. cavilla
bantering jests, sophistry: cf. of. caviller.
to raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault
without good reason.
1913 webster
you do not well in obstinacy
to cavil in the course of this contract. --shak.
1913 webster
see also:
caviled cavilled caviling cavilling
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
caviling \cav"iling\, a.
disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. see
captious.
1913 webster
his depreciatory and caviling criticism. --lewis.
1913 webster
see also:
captious
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
caviling
adj : quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers
and quiggling pleaders"-edmund burke; "her nagging and
carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily
nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no
patience with quibbling critics" syn: carping, nitpicking,
pettifogging, quibbling
see also:
carping nitpicking pettifogging quibbling
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
20 moby thesaurus words for "caviling":
captious, carping, censorious, contrary, critic, demanding,
exacting, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting,
hypercritical, mean, niggling, nitpicking, overcritical, perverse,
petty, picky, small
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