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caviling

 
Adjective caviling has 1 sense
  1. caviling, carping, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibbling - quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics"
    Antonym: uncritical (indirect, via critical)
Verb cavil has 1 sense
  1. cavil, carp, chicane - raise trivial objections
    --1 is one way to object
    Derived forms: noun caviller1, noun caviler1, noun cavil1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP
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