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

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

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

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.

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

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

Cavil :: Cavil (v. t.) To cavil at.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Cavilled :: Cavilled () of Cavi.

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

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

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

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