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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..

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

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

Findfaulting :: Findfaulting (a.) Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious.

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

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.

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 (n.) A captious or frivolous objection.

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

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

Cavil :: Cavil (v. t.) To cavil at.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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