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 Austen, Jane

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

This is a fine legal quibble, stated for a purpose; but since legal minds disagree upon this point, a caviller might say no law is self-executing; all laws require enforcement.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

The philosophic pessimist is not a fretful and malignant caviller who sneers at the follies of others because he thinks himself so much wiser than they.

From Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama by Hight, George Ainslie