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

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.

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

Surely none but a caviller will find any want of harmony between these different modes of expression.

From The Theology of Holiness by Clark, Dougan

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 Hume, David