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
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 Richard Carlile
The caviller will say at once: "Could not someone else have done the work equally well—either a near relation in the other sphere or a ministering angel?"
From Seen and Unseen by E. Katharine Bates
The caviller will perhaps ask, concerning some of the rambling observations contained in this chapter, and the subject which has called them forth, Cui bono?
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
