caviller
Example Sentences
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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
And a caviller might perhaps go farther, and ask the significant question, Are we not known all over the world as a race of arrant braggarts?
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
The injunction is multiplied on us, as it were, to silence the sophistry of the caviller, and to fix the most inconsiderate mind.
From A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. by William Wilberforce
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
"The chief benefit conferred upon society and humanity by a large proportion of our population," he would have cynically observed to any caviller, "is by dying and becoming useful 'subjects.'"
From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Charles Theodore Murray
