About The Word Cavil
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Cavil
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What's The Definition Of Cavil?
[v] raise trivial objections
Synonyms | Synonyms for Cavil: carp | chicane Related Terms | Find terms related to Cavil: adverse criticism | animadversion | argue | argufy | around the bush | aspersion | bad notices | bad press | bandy words | beat about | beg the question | bicker | boggle | captiousness | carp | carping | catch at straws | caviling | censoriousness | censure | chicane | choplogic | complain | complaint | contend | contest | criticism | criticize | cross swords | cut and thrust | cut up | demur | discept | dispute | dodge | equivocate | evade | evade the issue | exception | fault-find | faultfinding | fence | find fault | flak | give and take | hairsplitting | hassle | have it out | hedge | hit | home thrust | hostile criticism | hypercriticalness | hypercriticism | imputation | jesuitism | join issue | knock | lock horns | logomachize | moot | mystify | nagging | niggle | niggling | nit | nitpick | nit-picking | object | obloquy | obscure | overcriticalness | palter | parry | pestering | pettifog | pettifogging | pick holes | pick nits | pick to pieces | plead | polemicize | polemize | prevaricate | priggishness | pull apart | pull to pieces | pussyfoot | quibble | quibbling | quiddity | quillet | quip | quirk | quodlibet | rap | reflection | reproachfulness | shift | shuffle | shy | sidestep | slam | spar | split hairs | stricture | swipe | take exception | take sides | taking exception | tear apart | tear to pieces | tergiversate | thrash out | trichoschistism | try conclusions | wrangle See Also | object Cavil In Webster's Dictionary \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.
You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of
this contract. --Shak.
\Cav"il\, v. t. To cavil at. [Obs.] --Milton. \Cav"il\, n. A captious or frivolous objection. All the cavils of prejudice and unbelief. --Shak. |
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