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
“Why do you wear that stuff?” she was asked, a question that has passed between many a caviling mother and obdurate teenage daughter.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2016
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
Cease this miserable caviling which you and Joseph are at work on night and day—ridiculous for him, and still less appropriate for you.
From The Rose of Old St. Louis by Dillon, Mary