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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cavilling :: Cavilling () of Cavi.

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..

Cavilled :: Cavilled () of Cavi.

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