caviling
Example Sentences
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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
They make deals, unencumbered by caviling aides and persnickety diplomats, as he and Mr. Trump will be when they meet in Helsinki.
From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2018
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
Nothing is said so simply that it cannot be distorted by caviling.
From Apology of the Augsburg Confession by Melanchthon, Philipp