caviller

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To the merely fanciful caviller at the result of this attempt, it would be a prostitution of time and patience, even if one had both in the requisite quantity, to offer a reply.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

A public accuser would be intolerable, or even a caviller, who should inveigh against sins for which he himself is called in question.

From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Trollope, Anthony

The injunction is multiplied on us, as it were, to silence the sophistry of the caviller, and to fix the most inconsiderate mind.

From A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. by Wilberforce, William

The caviller may object to the application of the words “fine art” to culinary operations, but the objection rests on superficial thought. 

From Behind the Bungalow by Aitken, Edward Hamilton

"The chief benefit conferred upon society and humanity by a large proportion of our population," he would have cynically observed to any caviller, "is by dying and becoming useful 'subjects.'"

From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Murray, Charles Theodore