cavil

Example Sentences

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I occasionally wished “Too Bright to See” was in something other than the earnest first-person present tense that so litters contemporary books for children, but this is a small cavil.

From New York Times

But academic cavilling hasn’t invalidated Pariser’s basic insight – that algorithmic curation of our information flows has had a tangible impact on how people see the world.

From The Guardian

None of these cavils stopped me from standing up and cheering, with tears in my eyes, for “Last Dance.”

From Los Angeles Times

Many of the Labour moderates have been counting on Corbyn’s instinctive Euroscepticism and cavilling over an EU referendum to alienate the party faithful.

From The Guardian

One can cavil at some of Kleiman’s technical observations, but he saw that nuclear power was useful, at least as a bridge technology to a cleaner future of renewables.

From Los Angeles Times