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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cavil \Cav"il\ (k[a^]v"[i^]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Caviled} or {Cavilled}; p. pr & vb n. {Caviling} or {Cavilling}.] [L. cavillari to practice jesting, to censure, fr cavilla bantering jests, sophistry: cf OF caviller.] To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason. You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Caviling \Cav"il*ing\, a. Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See {Captious}. His depreciatory and caviling criticism. --Lewis. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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" [syn: {carping}, {nitpicking}, {pettifogging}, {quibbling}]
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