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HOME | Definition of caviling (CAVILING, Caviling)


    Cavil \Cav"il\ (k[a^]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.
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    You do not well in obstinacy
    To cavil in the course of this contract. --Shak.
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    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    Caviling \Cav"il*ing\, a.
    Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See
    Captious.
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    His depreciatory and caviling criticism. --Lewis.
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    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    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]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    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

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0




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