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

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

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..

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

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.

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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