caviller

Example Sentences

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The caviller will say at once: "Could not someone else have done the work equally well—either a near relation in the other sphere or a ministering angel?"

From Seen and Unseen by Bates, E. Katharine

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

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 Hornung, Ernest W.

I neither fear the critic or the caviller upon the ground-work of my address.

From An Address to Men of Science Calling Upon Them to Stand Forward and Vindicate the Truth.... by Carlile, Richard