Cavil Synonyms

kăvəl
Raise trivial objections
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. carp
  2. quibble
  3. criticize
  4. find-fault
  5. belittle
  6. bicker
  7. criticism (speciousor frivolous)
  8. criticize.--n. objection
  9. exception
  10. haggle
  11. nitpick
  12. objection
  13. chicane
An evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. quibble
  2. quiddity
To argue or find fault over trivial matters; raise petty objections.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. quibble

Words Related to Cavil

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. censure
  2. complain
  3. repine
  4. distance of time

Cavil Sentence Examples

  • Equally ingenious is their cavil, that women should not be baptized if baptism is to be made conformable to circumcision.

  • On the one hand, the general agreement everywhere between the Hebrew accounts and contemporaneous records from Mesopotamia proves beyond cavil that, broadly speaking, the Bible accounts are historically true, and were written by persons who in the main had access to contemporaneous documents.

  • After allowing for this, Angelico should nevertheless be accepted beyond cavil as an exalted typical painter according to his own range of conceptions, consonant with his monastic calling, unsullied purity of life and exceeding devoutness.

  • Certain it is that there is much in his utterances for a less robust democracy than his own to cavil at.'

  • The Final Five Cylons did not know they were Cylons thanks to Cavil blocking their memories and implanting them among the humans.

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