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
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
To conclude, if any person should feel inclined to attempt to refute this book, let him do it like a man; without evading the question, or equivocating, or caviling about little things.
From The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old by English, George Bethune