Meaning of CAVILING
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[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" |
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CAVILING is a 8 letter word that starts with C. |
| | Synonyms: | | carping, critical, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibbling |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Cav"il*ing\, a.
Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See
{Captious}.
His depreciatory and caviling criticism. --Lewis.
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| | Related Terms: | | captious, carping, censorious, contrary, critic, demanding, exacting, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, hypercritical, mean, niggling, nitpicking, overcritical, perverse, petty, picky, small |
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