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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..

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

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

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

Captious :: Captious (a.) Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.

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

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

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

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

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..

Cavilling :: Cavilling () of Cavi.

Difficulty :: Difficulty (n.) A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.

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

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

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

Cavilled :: Cavilled () of Cavi.

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

Fallax :: Fallax (n.) Cavillation; a caviling.

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

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

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