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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Cavilling :: Cavilling () of Cavi.

Cavilled :: Cavilled () of Cavi.

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