cavil

Example Sentences

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“The history demonstrates beyond cavil that the founding generation understood that ‘legislatures’ would operate as normal legislatures, not independent legislatures, with respect to both procedure and substance,” he writes.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2022

The organization’s main cavil — that the measure will have inordinate impact on small medical practices — is largely a smokescreen.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2020

This cavil has no bearing on the outcome of the case.

From Slate • Feb. 20, 2019

They talk a lot about how something must be done about inequality and the need to address social unrest, but cavil at the idea they might be a big part of the problem.

From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2019

The committee awarded Livingston his doctorate without cavil.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik