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41petulant — a. 1. Irascible, irritable, fretful, peevish, hasty, touchy, testy, crusty, pettish, waspish, choleric, snappish, snarling, cross, crabbed, captious, censorious, acrimonious, perverse, froward, ill tempered, out of sorts, cavilling, ill humored.… …
42carping — I. a. Cavilling, censorious, captious, hypercritical. II. n. Censure, cavil, fault finding, hyper criticism, captious criticism …
43cavil — verb cavilled, cavilling BrE, caviled, caviling AmE (intransitive + at) formal to make unnecessary complaints about someone or something …
44cavil — UK [ˈkæv(ə)l] / US [ˈkævəl] verb [intransitive] Word forms cavil : present tense I/you/we/they cavil he/she/it cavils present participle cavilling past tense cavilled past participle cavilled formal to argue or protest about unimportant details …
45captious — /ˈkæpʃəs / (say kapshuhs) adjective 1. apt to make much of trivial faults or defects; fault finding; difficult to please. 2. proceeding from a fault finding or cavilling disposition: captious remarks. 3. apt or designed to ensnare or perplex,… …
46quibble — A cavilling or verbal objection. A slight difficulty raised without necessity or propriety …
47cavil — ► VERB (cavilled, cavilling; US caviled, caviling) ▪ make petty objections. ► NOUN ▪ a petty objection. ORIGIN Latin cavillari, from cavilla mockery …
48cavil — [kav′əl] vi. caviled or cavilled, caviling or cavilling [OFr caviller < L cavillari < cavilla, jeering < * calvilla < calvari, to deceive; akin to calumnia, CALUMNY] to object when there is little reason to do so; resort to trivial… …
49cavil — v. & n. v.intr. (cavilled, cavilling; US caviled, caviling) (usu. foll. by at, about) make petty objections; carp. n. a trivial objection. Derivatives: caviller n. Etymology: F caviller f. L cavillari f. cavilla mockery …
50nit-picking — adj quibbling, carping, finicky, fussy, hair splitting, hypercritical, pedantic, captious, pettifogging, cavilling …
