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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.

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

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

Caviled :: Caviled (imp. & p. p.) of Cavi.

Vitilitigation :: Vitilitigation (n.) Cavilous litigation; cavillation.

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

Caviling :: Caviling (a.) Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See Captious.

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

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

Vitilitigate :: Vitilitigate (v. i.) To contend in law litigiously or cavilously.

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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