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Caviling — Cav il*ing, a. Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See {Captious}. [1913 Webster] His depreciatory and caviling criticism. Lewis. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Cavillous — Cavilous Cav il*ous or Cavillous Cav il*lous, a. [L. cavillosus.] Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing. [R.] {Cav il*ous*ly}, adv. [R.] {Cav il*ous*ness}, n. [R.] [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Cavilous — Cav il*ous or Cavillous Cav il*lous, a. [L. cavillosus.] Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing. [R.] {Cav il*ous*ly}, adv. [R.] {Cav il*ous*ness}, n. [R.] [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Cavilously — Cavilous Cav il*ous or Cavillous Cav il*lous, a. [L. cavillosus.] Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing. [R.] {Cav il*ous*ly}, adv. [R.] {Cav il*ous*ness}, n. [R.] [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Cavilousness — Cavilous Cav il*ous or Cavillous Cav il*lous, a. [L. cavillosus.] Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing. [R.] {Cav il*ous*ly}, adv. [R.] {Cav il*ous*ness}, n. [R.] [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
fractious — I adjective apt to quarrel, bad tempered, bearish, bickering, cantankerous, captious, carping, caviling, choleric, churlish, complaining, contentious, contrary, crabby, cranky, cross, cross grained, crusty, difficilis, difficult, disposed to… … Law dictionary
captious — a. 1. Censorious, cavilling, carping, hypercritical, disposed to cavil, given to fault finding. 2. Crabbed, snappish, testy, touchy, waspish, splenetic, cross, snarling, acrimonious, cantankerous (colloq.), contentious. 3. Ensnaring, insidious … New dictionary of synonyms
cavilling — a. 1. Captious, censorious, carping, critical, hypercritical, disposed to cavil, given to fault finding. 2. Specious, sophistical, plausible, tricky … New dictionary of synonyms
caviling — adjective or cavilling : disposed to cavil : inclined to find fault and raise picayune ill grounded objections caviling pettifoggers and quibbling pleaders Edmund Burke Synonyms: see critical … Useful english dictionary
Captious — Cap tious, a. [F. captieux, L. captiosus. See {Caption}.] 1. Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. [1913 Webster] A captious and suspicious age. Stillingfleet. [1913 Webster] I am… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
