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caviller

NOUN
  1. a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections

How To Use caviller In A Sentence

  • The noble cavalier characterized," "& a rebellious caviller cauterized," 1644 _or_ 5. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
  • I refer every caviller to a brick house, sashed windows below, and casements above, in Highbury. Emma
  • Almost three years on, the carpers and cavillers are still complaining about the huge sums extracted from the telcos in the European 3G spectrum auctions.
  • Of course, there will always be naysayers in this world, the sort of petty cavillers, who enjoy criticizing folks like Mark.
  • We don't need any more headstrong, litigious lawyers; we've been groaning under the weight of carpers and cavillers for years.
  • Have these cavillers an intellect superior to Newton's own?
  • Porphyry or some other caviller, [275] may object, that this is fabulous, because the reason of it does not appear; or because it is unusual; or because it is repugnant to the common order of nature. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
  • Frank Hadden has certainly had his detractors down the years, but even his most stringent caviller would have to admit that this is a man who has served his time.
  • Athaeneus, to philosophers and travellers, an opiniative ass, a caviller, a kind of pedant; for his manners, as Theod. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • The philosophic pessimist is not a fretful and malignant caviller who sneers at the follies of others because he thinks himself so much wiser than they. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama
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