cavil
verb (used without object)
to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at orabout ).
cavils
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present tense formof cavil (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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This proposal generated cavils in the chattering classes that it would drive home prices up to absorb the $25,000 grant, putatively keeping homes out of the reach of the beneficiaries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024
These may be a reviewer’s cavils; Zoellick wrote the book, he gets to decide what to include.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2020
Inevitably, as in any operatic career, there were critical cavils.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2018
Don’t be put off by these cavils, though.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2018
All this is true; and yet the answer which Plutarch would probably have made to any such cavils is very simple.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
