cavil
verb (used without object)
to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at orabout ).
am cavilling
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present progressiveof cavil (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The reader will say at once here that I am cavilling at M. Dubois for what I praised in Chapu.
From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by W. C. (William Crary) Brownell
