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Caviling

Caviling Meaning & Definition
Caviling Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of 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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Caviling: carping | critical | nitpicking | pettifogging | quibbling

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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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Caviling In Webster's Dictionary

\Cav"il*ing\, a. Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See {Captious}. His depreciatory and caviling criticism. --Lewis.

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