caviller
Example Sentences
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Though he was an authority among the young men in sailing boats, he had not attained this distinction by being a critic and caviller.
From The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder by Optic, Oliver
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
So that in what has been hitherto printed of the Testament, there is little, if any thing, with which any one but a professed caviller can find fault.
From Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society by Darlow, Thomas Herbert
So caviller like I submitted to pow'r, And was coddled in troth for the third of an hour.
From A Season at Harrogate by Hofland, Mrs. (Barbara)
To the merely fanciful caviller at the result of this attempt, it would be a prostitution of time and patience, even if one had both in the requisite quantity, to offer a reply.
