Definition of cavil

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

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Cavilled :: Cavilled () of Cavi.
Chicane :: Chicane (n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices..
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.
Caviling :: Caviling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cavi.
Cavillation :: Cavillation (n.) Frivolous or sophistical objection.
Quibble :: Quibble (n.) A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.
Fallax :: Fallax (n.) Cavillation; a caviling.
Hafter :: Hafter (n.) A caviler; a wrangler.
Carping :: Carping (a.) Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious.
Findfault :: Findfault (n.) A censurer or caviler.
Quibbler :: Quibbler (n.) One who quibbles; a caviler; also, a punster..
Carper :: Carper (n.) One who carps; a caviler.
Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.
Cavil :: Cavil (v. t.) To cavil at.
Caviler :: Caviler (n.) Alt. of Caville.
Caviled :: Caviled (imp. & p. p.) of Cavi.
Quiddity :: Quiddity (n.) A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble.
Captious :: Captious (a.) Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.
Vitilitigation :: Vitilitigation (n.) Cavilous litigation; cavillation.
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