caviling
Example Sentences
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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
To conclude, if any person should feel inclined to attempt to refute this book, let him do it like a man; without evading the question, or equivocating, or caviling about little things.
From The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old by English, George Bethune
