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Cavillous :: Cavillous (a.) Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing..

Carp :: Carp (v. i.) To find fault; to cavil; to censure words or actions without reason or ill-naturedly; -- usually followed by at.

Quibble :: Quibble (n.) A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.

Carper :: Carper (n.) One who carps; a caviler.

Chicane :: Chicane (n.) The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry..

Caviler :: Caviler (n.) Alt. of Caville.

Quarrel :: Quarrel (v. i.) To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot..

Critic :: Critic (n.) One who passes a rigorous or captious judgment; one who censures or finds fault; a harsh examiner or judge; a caviler; a carper.

Caviling :: Caviling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cavi.

Carping :: Carping (a.) Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious.

Cavilling :: Cavilling () of Cavi.

Disputative :: Disputative (a.) Disposed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as, a disputative temper..

Chicane :: Chicane (n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices..

Cavilous :: Cavilous (a.) Alt. of Cavillou.

Findfaulting :: Findfaulting (a.) Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious.

Caviller :: Caviller (n.) One who cavils.

Caption :: Caption (n.) A caviling; a sophism.

Hafter :: Hafter (n.) A caviler; a wrangler.

Cavilingly :: Cavilingly (adv.) In a caviling manner.

Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.

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