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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Carper :: Carper (n.) One who carps; a caviler.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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