Definitions for: Caviling

[adj] quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics"

Webster (1913) Definition: Cav"il*ing, a.
Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See
Captious.

His depreciatory and caviling criticism. --Lewis.

Synonyms: carping, critical, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibbling

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