cavilling
1cavilling — index petulant Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
2Cavilling — Cavil Cav il (k[a^]v [i^]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Caviled} or {Cavilled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Caviling} or {Cavilling}.] [L. cavillari to practice jesting, to censure, fr. cavilla bantering jests, sophistry: cf. OF. caviller.] To raise captious and… …
3cavilling — noun cavillation …
4cavilling — cav·il || kævɪl v. complain, criticize, find fault …
5cavilling — a. 1. Captious, censorious, carping, critical, hypercritical, disposed to cavil, given to fault finding. 2. Specious, sophistical, plausible, tricky …
6cavilling — adjective see caviling …
7Dissent — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Dissent >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 dissent dissent Sgm: N 1 discordance discordance &c.(disagreement) 24 Sgm: N 1 difference diversity of opinion difference diversity of opinion GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 nonconformity… …
8cavil — I. /ˈkævəl / (say kavuhl) verb (i) (cavilled or, US, caviled, cavilling or, US, caviling) 1. (sometimes followed by at) to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault unnecessarily. –noun 2. a trivial and annoying objection …
9fault-finding — ♦ n criticism, grumbling, complaining, complaint, carping, quibbling, cavilling, nagging, niggling, hypercriticism FORMAL ultracrepidation COLLOQ. finger pointing, hair splitting, nit picking ≠ praise ♦ adj critical, grumbling, nagging, captious …
10Cavil — Cav il (k[a^]v [i^]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Caviled} or {Cavilled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Caviling} or {Cavilling}.] [L. cavillari to practice jesting, to censure, fr. cavilla bantering jests, sophistry: cf. OF. caviller.] To raise captious and… …
