caviller

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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 Trollope, Anthony

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

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.

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 Scott, Temple

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