cavils
- present tense form of cavil (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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For all the cavils about cookie-cutter proposals, there was a refreshing diversity in the social-media pitches of the candidates.
From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2022
And yet ... as Gray wrote in her review, “None of these cavils stopped me from standing up and cheering, with tears in my eyes, for ‘Last Dance.’”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2019
Don’t be put off by these cavils, though.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2018
Yet despite numerous cavils, “The Aeneid” still fuels modern imaginations.
From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2017
The talker who cavils at anything that is said stops conversation more than if he answered only yes or no to all remarks addrest to him.
From Conversation What to Say and How to Say it by Conklin, Mary Greer
