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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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