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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Cavilling :: Cavilling () of Cavi.

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

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

Critic :: Critic (n.) One who passes a rigorous or captious judgment; one who censures or finds fault; a harsh examiner or judge; a caviler; a carper.

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

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

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

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

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

Quarrel :: Quarrel (v. i.) To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot..

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..

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

Quibble :: Quibble (n.) A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.

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