caviller
Example Sentences
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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 William Wilberforce
There he was unstable, indecisive, happy-go-lucky, a trifler, a procrastinator; hopelessly unpractical himself, and what was much more tiresome, a consistent caviller at the practical in others.
From Denis Dent A Novel by Ernest W. Hornung
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
"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 Charles Theodore Murray
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 Anthony Trollope
