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cavil
verb
(cav-il)
raise trivial objections
Synonyms:
carp
,
chicane
,
cavil
noun
(cav-il)
an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
Synonyms:
quibble
,
quiddity
,
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cavil
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carp
,
chicane
,
quibble
,
complain
,
object
,
beef
,
grumble
,
demur
,
kvetch
,
sophist
,
scoff
,
cavillation
,
harrumph
,
snigger
,
prolixity
,
presume
,
bromidic
,
tautologies
,
titter
,
ungrammatically
,
chunter
,
mutter
,
tut
,
rebarbative
,
elide
,
pedantry
,
delphic
,
damnably
,
charlatanry
,
sniffy
,
illogicality
,
sotto voce
,
syllogistic
,
perspicuity
,
wishfulness
,
prudishly
,
fatuity
,
overpraise
,
expostulation
,
pedantic
,
dilettantism
,
inarticulately
,
infelicities
,
belabour
,
churlish
,
obtusely
,
tautological
,
infelicitous
,
bray
,
snobbism
,
otiose
,
moan
,
argue
,
pedant
,
forsooth
,
pettifogging
,
purblind
,
factuality
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facetiousness
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orotund
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peevishly
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fiddlesticks
,
unimprovable
,
simper
,
chortle
,
unsayable
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gainsay
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swiftian
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quiddity
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patronisingly
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solecism
,
whinge
,
naysay
,
ineloquent
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crossly
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journalese
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lament
,
tommyrot
,
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,
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temporized
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gaucherie
,
confessedly
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tuts
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tendentiousness
,
suppliant
,
quibblers
,
grandiloquence
,
mawkishly
,
disdainful
,
prissily
,
sophistries
,
guffaw
,
declaim
,
cavil
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