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  • present participle of cavil.

caviling







ADJECTIVE
faultfinding
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So what was I caviling about to myself during intermission?

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 31, 2025

Someone better warn these caviling critics about Hamlet.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2021

It would come off as cheeky caviling to basically say, “I don’t like the way you defended me and my property from a criminal.”

From Slate Mar. 31, 2016

It was hard to fault Woods’s performance, even after all the caviling about timing his announcement in the middle of a golf tournament and the ban on reporters’ questions.

From New York Times Feb. 20, 2010

"Ah!" says DIVINITY, "so mine, with quibbling and with caviling, Would have you, ma'am, to blind yourself, to see the road to travel in."

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James




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