cavil
verb (used without object)
to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at orabout ).
will cavil
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future tenseof cavil.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Now that he has, some will cavil that the occasion did not match the achievement: he got the runs against Bangladesh, one of the minnows of the game.
From Time ● Mar. 17, 2012
None but an idiot will cavil, because a rich man adorns his mansion, with elegance and taste, and receives his friends in a style of liberal hospitality.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
Who will cavil at Pius VII, in this new dawn of public tranquillity, for his endeavours to recover their services?
From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by R. C. (Robert Charles) Dallas
Few will cavil at the inclusion in our study of a living author like Hardy.
From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Richard Burton
If that is the meaning of Imperialism, who will cavil at it?
From The Character of the British Empire by Ramsay Muir
