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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

“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

Let there be no caviling and contention on the score of possibility; be satisfied with the inquiry: Is it the Word of God?

From Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent by Luther, Martin




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