caviller
Example Sentences
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For my temptation to think it a right, I refer every caviller to a brick house, sashed windows below, and casements above, in Highbury.
From Emma by Jane Austen
He was no conceited or froward caviller at authority, nor born rebel against established teachers and governors.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot by John Morley
And a caviller might raise all the same objections to the Copernican system, which you have urged against my reasonings.
From Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
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
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 Temple Scott
