Thesaurus / cavil
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There is no hesitation, cavil, or debate in the acceptance of it as a duty.
THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW, JANUARY 1883VARIOUSI should n't want to have it go abroad that we had not acted formally, if there was any one disposed to cavil.
ELIHEMAN WHITE CHAPLINOf this he complains, with some cause, as it afterwards occasioned numbers of unsanctified critics to laugh and cavil at him.
THE BOOK OF CURIOSITIESI. PLATTSSome discontented Frerons or Arnauds, might cavil against it: but this was rebellion, not controversy.
LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF DAVID HUME, VOLUME II (OF 2)JOHN HILL BURTONThis appeared to be a contradiction in terms, but public apathy accepted it without cavil.
SOMEHOW GOODWILLIAM DE MORGANI took up her book again and tried to cavil at it,over one or two dainty bits of poetic simile and sentiment I laughed,enviously.
THE SORROWS OF SATANMARIE CORELLIThat Mr. Talbot was very angry indeed was established beyond cavil.
A REVERSIBLE SANTA CLAUSMEREDITH NICHOLSONThe cavil against the Colonel abated not a jot; the epithets hurled at his devoted head were as picturesque as of yore.
THE SIEGE OF KIMBERLEYT. PHELANSpiritual insight establishes two facts beyond cavil or dispute or reversion.
SEX=THE UNKNOWN QUANTITYALI NOMADBeyond cavil, this portly and handsome volume makes good the claim which is set forth on the title-page.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 14, NO. 85, NOVEMBER, 1864VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO CAVIL
- Bronx cheer
- animadversion
- aspersion
- bad press
- blast
- brickbats
- call down
- carping
- cavil
- caviling
- censure
- critical remarks
- cut
- denunciation
- disparagement
- faultfinding
- flak
- hit
- knock
- nit-picking
- objection
- opprobrium
- pan
- panning
- put down
- quibble
- rap on knuckles
- reproof
- roast
- slam
- slap
- slap on wrist
- static
- stricture
- swipe
- vitriol
- zapper
- Bronx cheers
- animadversions
- aspersions
- bad presses
- blasts
- brickbats
- call downs
- carpings
- cavilings
- cavils
- censures
- critical remarks
- cuts
- denunciations
- disparagements
- faultfinding
- flak
- hits
- knocks
- nit-picking
- objections
- opprobrium
- panning
- pans
- put downs
- quibbles
- rap on knuckles
- reproofs
- roasts
- slams
- slap on wrists
- slaps
- static
- strictures
- swipes
- vitriol
- zappers
- beat around the bush
- beg the question
- blow hot and cold
- cavil
- cloud the issue
- cop a plea
- cop out
- cover up
- dodge
- double-talk
- elude
- escape
- eschew
- evade
- falsify
- fence
- fib
- flip-flop
- fudge
- give the runaround
- hedge
- hem and haw
- jive
- lie
- mince words
- palter
- parry
- pass the buck
- prevaricate
- pussyfoot
- quibble
- run around
- shuck
- shuffle
- sidestep
- sit on the fence
- stonewall
- tell white lie
- tergiversate
- tergiverse
- waffle
- weasel
- avoid
- baffle
- balk
- beat around bush
- beg the question
- bypass
- cavil
- circumvent
- conceal
- confuse
- cop out
- deceive
- decline
- dodge
- double
- duck
- elude
- equivocate
- escape
- eschew
- fence
- fend off
- flee
- fly
- fudge
- get around
- give the runaround
- hedge
- hide
- keep distance
- lay low
- lead on a merry chase
- lie
- parry
- pass up
- pretend
- prevaricate
- pussyfoot
- put off
- shift
- shirk
- shuck
- shuffle
- shun
- shy
- sidestep
- slip out
- sneak away
- steer clear of
- tergiversate
- trick
- waffle
- weasel
- aberrations
- ambiguities
- artifices
- biases
- casuistries
- cavils
- deceit
- deceptions
- deceptiveness
- delusions
- deviations
- elusions
- equivocations
- errata
- erroneousnesses
- errors
- evasions
- falsehoods
- faultiness
- flaws
- heresies
- illogicalities
- inconsistencies
- inexactnesses
- invalidities
- misapprehensions
- miscalculations
- misconstruals
- misinterpretations
- mistakes
- non sequiturs
- notions
- paradoxes
- perversions
- preconceptions
- prejudices
- quibblings
- quirks
- solecisms
- sophisms
- sophistries
- speciousnesses
- subterfuges
- untruths
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