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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Caviling (0.02915 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Caviling.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: cavil
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: caviling
caviling
adj : quibbling over insignificant details;
“caviling pettifoggers
and quiggling pleaders”-Edmund Burke;
“her nagging and
carping attack”;
“thought her editor unnecessarily
nitpicking”;
“a pettifogging lawyer's mind”;
“had no
patience with quibbling critics” [syn:
carping,
nitpicking,
pettifogging,
quibbling]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Caviling
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.
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You do not well in obstinacy
To cavil in the course of this contract. --Shak.
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Caviling
\Cav"il*ing\, a.
Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See
Captious.
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His depreciatory and caviling criticism. --Lewis.
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