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  • present participle of cavil.

caviling







ADJECTIVE
faultfinding
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So what was I caviling about to myself during intermission?

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 31, 2025

What artist would want to tap into the flow of my caviling thoughts in the middle of a performance?

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 18, 2022

“Why do you wear that stuff?” she was asked, a question that has passed between many a caviling mother and obdurate teenage daughter.

From New York Times Jun. 21, 2016

It would come off as cheeky caviling to basically say, “I don’t like the way you defended me and my property from a criminal.”

From Slate Mar. 31, 2016

Herein Shelley is far removed from the caviling temper of his fellow rebel Byron.

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William Joseph Long




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