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

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

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

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

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

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

Caviling :: Caviling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cavi.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Carping :: Carping (a.) Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious.

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..

Caviller :: Caviller (n.) One who cavils.

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