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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cavillous :: Cavillous (a.) Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing..

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

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

Cavilling :: Cavilling () of Cavi.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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