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Caviller

noun
1.
A disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections.  Synonyms: caviler, pettifogger, quibbler.






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"Caviller" Quotes from Famous Books



... in which Zeno reasoned upon them laid them more open to objection; for as running streams are seldom or never tainted, while standing waters easily grow corrupt, so a fluency of expression washes away the censures of the caviller, while the narrow limits of a discourse which is too concise is almost defenceless; for the arguments which I am enlarging upon are thus briefly laid down ...
— Cicero's Tusculan Disputations - Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth • Marcus Tullius Cicero



Words linked to "Caviller" :   cavil, malcontent



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