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
It is the school of wrangling, and worse than the schools, for men will cavil here for a hair's breadth, and make a stir where a straw would end the controversy.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
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
It is a fact most certainly avowed in the Reformation, although some will cavil at it, that baptism was instituted by immersing the whole body in water.
From To Infidelity and Back by Henry F. (Henry Frey) Lutz
If that is the meaning of Imperialism, who will cavil at it?
From The Character of the British Empire by Ramsay Muir
