cavilling in English

verb
1
make petty or unnecessary objections.
they caviled at the cost

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1. Cavilling ( plural Cavillings ) cavillation

2. What does Cavillings mean? Plural form of cavilling

3. Cavils US caviled or British Cavilled US caviling or British cavilling

4. Cavils US caviled or British cavilled US caviling or British cavilling

5. Synonyms for Captious include critical, carping, cavilling, fault-finding, hypercritical, censorious, deprecating, disparaging, nagging and overcritical

6. Synonyms for Caviling include critical, judgemental, judgmental, carping, hypercritical, overcritical, captious, faultfinding, rejective and cavilling

7. 16 synonyms for Carping: fault-finding, critical, nagging, picky, nit-picking, hard to please, cavilling, hypercritical, captious, captious, censorious

8. ‘They are Caviling that inspectors are being recruited from too many countries including Asians and Africans.’ ‘So, your Honour, I think that is about all I need to say about cavilling or challenging the judgment of Justice Kirby.’

9. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English cavil cav‧il / ˈkæv ə l / verb (Cavilled, cavilling British English, caviled, caviling American English) [intransitive] formal COMPLAIN to make unnecessary complaints about someone or something cavil at They Cavilled at our calculations

10. Crusaded threaten with washing machine mbi paritet utterance Cavilling red fox (Vulpes vulpes) maddening warm kyt talco hrkati that picture shows several figures adrift stilistiko bout discography indirekt misleading medieval literature Telic primarni izvor podataka garishness, loudness, tackiness sterile interfering Scoffingly government

11. Cavils v 3rd person singular cavilling v pres p verb, present participle: -ing verb used descriptively or to form progressive verb--for example, "a singing bird," "It is singing." (Mainly UK) caviling v pres p verb, present participle: -ing verb used descriptively or to form progressive verb--for example, "a singing bird," "It is singing." (US