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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CAVILING, ppr. Raising frivolous objections.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Cavil Cav"il (k[a^]v"[i^]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Caviled or Cavilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Caviling or Cavilling.] [L. cavillari to practice jesting, to censure, fr. cavilla bantering jests, sophistry: cf. OF. caviller.] To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason. You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract. --Shak.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Caviling Cav"il*ing, a. Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See Captious. His depreciatory and caviling criticism. --Lewis.
Moby Thesaurus
captious, carping, censorious, contrary, critic, demanding, exacting, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, hypercritical, mean, niggling, nitpicking, overcritical, perverse, petty, picky, small
