caviller

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And a caviller might raise all the same objections to the Copernican system, which you have urged against my reasonings.

From Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by Hume, David

And a caviller might perhaps go farther, and ask the significant question, Are we not known all over the world as a race of arrant braggarts?

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

This is a fine legal quibble, stated for a purpose; but since legal minds disagree upon this point, a caviller might say no law is self-executing; all laws require enforcement.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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 caviller will perhaps ask, concerning some of the rambling observations contained in this chapter, and the subject which has called them forth, Cui bono?

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony