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

Cavilling :: Cavilling () of Cavi.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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