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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..

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

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..

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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