About The Word Caviling
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Caviling
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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 See Also | 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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