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

Quibble :: Quibble (v. i.) To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate..

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

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

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

Quibbler :: Quibbler (n.) One who quibbles; a caviler; also, a punster..

Argutation :: Argutation (n.) Caviling; subtle disputation.

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

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

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.

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

Cavil :: Cavil (v. i.) To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.

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

Cavil :: Cavil (n.) A captious or frivolous objection.

Findfault :: Findfault (n.) A censurer or caviler.

Quiddity :: Quiddity (n.) A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble.

Cavillation :: Cavillation (n.) Frivolous or sophistical objection.

Word-catcher :: Word-catcher (n.) One who cavils at words.

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

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

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