caviling
Example Sentences
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So what was I caviling about to myself during intermission?
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2025
Someone better warn these caviling critics about Hamlet.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2021
“Why do you wear that stuff?” she was asked, a question that has passed between many a caviling mother and obdurate teenage daughter.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2016
It would come off as cheeky caviling to basically say, “I don’t like the way you defended me and my property from a criminal.”
From Slate • Mar. 31, 2016
Dear Gordon: You are a captious, caviling, carping, crabbed, contentious, cantankerous chap.
From Dear Enemy by Webster, Jean
