Synonyms for cavilling

Grammar : Verb

Spell : kav-uhl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæv əl

Définition of cavilling

Origin : 1540s, from Middle French caviller "to mock, jest," from Latin cavillari "to jeer, mock; satirize, argue scoffingly" (also source of Italian cavillare, Spanish cavilar), from cavilla "jest, jeering," related to calumnia (see calumny).

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Example sentences :

I have no taste for cavilling or grumbling over events that are past.
Extract from : « Khartoum Campaign, 1898 » by Bennet Burleigh

But the moment we pass the portal all cavilling is awed to silence.
Extract from : « Northern Spain » by Edgar T. A. Wigram

I do think, dear, you are only cavilling and making difficulties.
Extract from : « A Likely Story » by William De Morgan

"Shadow-boxing," he observed in a cavilling spirit to his companion.
Extract from : « The Adventures of Sally » by P. G. Wodehouse

A man's life was a man's life, and what was the use of cavilling at facts!
Extract from : « Cape of Storms » by Percival Pollard

Yet this was what it amounted to,—their way of cavilling at those who did not belong to their set.
Extract from : « Brenda, Her School and Her Club » by Helen Leah Reed

These are palpable facts, about which, as facts, there can be no cavilling.
Extract from : « Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 » by Abraham Lincoln

At length, without any measures of force, the cavilling of Spain ceased and she acquiesced in the transfer.
Extract from : « Thomas Jefferson » by Edward S. Ellis et. al.

Whoever you may be, I caution you against rashly defaming the author of this work, or cavilling in jest against him.
Extract from : « The Anatomy of Melancholy » by Democritus Junior

Carp′er, one who carps or cavils; Carp′ing, cavilling: fault-finding.
Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) » by Various

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