caviling
Example Sentences
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What artist would want to tap into the flow of my caviling thoughts in the middle of a performance?
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2022
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
Henrik Lundqvist: Early-season concern over a handful of spotty games and caviling over the occasional soft goal were, and continue to be, overreactions.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2011
The people of the neighborhood had ended by greatly esteeming her, for one did not find many customers so kind as she was, paying punctually, never caviling or higgling.
From L'Assommoir by Zola, Émile