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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Cavilled (0.01253 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Cavilled.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: cavil
mengecam
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: cavilled
cavilled
See
cavil
cavil
n : an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant
distinctions or objections [syn:
quibble,
quiddity]
v : raise trivial objections [syn:
carp,
chicane]
[also:
cavilling,
cavilled]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Cavilled
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.
[1913 Webster]
You do not well in obstinacy
To cavil in the course of this contract. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
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