caviller
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As to any mistakes I have made in computation, they are of little moment; and I shall not descend so low as to justify them against any caviller.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish by Temple Scott
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.
From Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama by George Ainslie Hight
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
He was no conceited or froward caviller at authority, nor born rebel against established teachers and governors.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot by John Morley
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 David Hume
