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Cavilled :: Cavilled () of Cavi.

Cavil :: Cavil (n.) A captious or frivolous objection.

Captious :: Captious (a.) Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.

Chicane :: Chicane (n.) The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry..

Findfaulting :: Findfaulting (a.) Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious.

Vitilitigate :: Vitilitigate (v. i.) To contend in law litigiously or cavilously.

Quiddity :: Quiddity (n.) A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble.

Quibble :: Quibble (n.) A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.

Difficulty :: Difficulty (n.) A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.

Quibble :: Quibble (v. i.) To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate..

Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.

Cavillation :: Cavillation (n.) Frivolous or sophistical objection.

Vitilitigation :: Vitilitigation (n.) Cavilous litigation; cavillation.

Carping :: Carping (a.) Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious.

Caviler :: Caviler (n.) Alt. of Caville.

Cavil :: Cavil (v. i.) To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.

Caviled :: Caviled (imp. & p. p.) of Cavi.

Cavilling :: Cavilling () of Cavi.

Carper :: Carper (n.) One who carps; a caviler.

Hafter :: Hafter (n.) A caviler; a wrangler.

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