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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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cavilling :: Cavilling () of Cavi.

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