caviller
- a word derived from cavil.
Example Sentences
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This is a fine legal quibble, stated for a purpose; but since legal minds disagree upon this point, a caviller might say no law is self-executing; all laws require enforcement.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
And a caviller might perhaps go farther, and ask the significant question, Are we not known all over the world as a race of arrant braggarts?
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
There he was unstable, indecisive, happy-go-lucky, a trifler, a procrastinator; hopelessly unpractical himself, and what was much more tiresome, a consistent caviller at the practical in others.
From Denis Dent A Novel by Hornung, Ernest W.
A public accuser would be intolerable, or even a caviller, who should inveigh against sins for which he himself is called in question.
From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Trollope, Anthony
And a caviller might raise all the same objections to the Copernican system, which you have urged against my reasonings.
From Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by Hume, David
