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

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

Findfault :: Findfault (n.) A censurer or caviler.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Cavilling :: Cavilling () of Cavi.

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

Cavilled :: Cavilled () of Cavi.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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