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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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