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Someone who raises annoying petty objections
Answer for the clue "Someone who raises annoying petty objections ", 8 letters:
caviller
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Word definitions for caviller in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caviler \Cav"il*er\ or Caviller \Cav"il*ler\ (-[~e]r), n. One who cavils. Cavilers at the style of the Scriptures. --Boyle.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of caviler English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections [syn: quibbler , caviler , pettifogger ]
Usage examples of caviller.
And a caviller might raise all the same objections to the Copernican system, which you have urged against my reasonings.
And a caviller might raise all the same objections to the Copernican system, which you have urged against my reasonings.
But my uncle, whose religion had been sadly undermined at court, was a terrible caviller at the holy mysteries of Catholicism.
All around me, I repeat, I seem to hear the angry murmur of carpers cavilling and cavillers carping.
To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done, and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.
Nevertheless these cavillers at faith and exactors of reason, how do they dispose of those things of which a reason cannot be given, and which yet exist, though in apparent contrariety to the nature of things?
And yet I now speak as a presumptuous caviller, unread in the lessons of the wise, and who vainly blunders over and misquotes their best learning.