caviler

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The critic should be more than a censor or caviler.

From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)

He was a great general and a great President, first in war and first in peace and all that, says our caviler, but his relaxation was in farm accounts, and his business war and politics.

From George Washington, Volume II by Lodge, Henry Cabot

If any such caviler should reach our Society, have the moral courage to point out that last paragraph, and see if the wretches have forgotten to blush for themselves.

From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

It came at an opportune time, and it did much to silence the caviler, to satisfy the doubter, and to reconcile honest people who sincerely desired the complete restoration of the Union.

From Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Keifer, Joseph Warren

The back-drawn effect of her chestnut tresses, which were still streaked here and there with sunny threads, could not be doubted as charming even by the most prejudiced caviler.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar