caviller
Example Sentences
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“Why does not God keep the Sabbath?” a caviller asked of a Jew.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods
And a caviller might raise all the same objections to the Copernican system, which you have urged against my reasonings.
From Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
There he was unstable, indecisive, happy-go-lucky, a trifler, a procrastinator; hopelessly unpractical himself, and what was much more tiresome, a consistent caviller at the practical in others.
From Denis Dent A Novel by Ernest W. Hornung
The philosophic pessimist is not a fretful and malignant caviller who sneers at the follies of others because he thinks himself so much wiser than they.
From Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama by George Ainslie Hight
The injunction is multiplied on us, as it were, to silence the sophistry of the caviller, and to fix the most inconsiderate mind.
From A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. by William Wilberforce
