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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cavilling :: Cavilling () of Cavi.

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