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cavilcav‧il /ˈkævəl/ verb (past tense and past participle cavilled, present participle cavilling British English, caviled, caviling American English) [intransitive] formal   cavilOrigin: 1500-1600 Latin cavillari ‘to joke, cavil’, from cavilla ‘joking’ VERB TABLEcavil |
| Present | I, you, we, they | cavil | | he, she, it | cavils | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | cavilled (BrE), caviled (AmE) | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have cavilled (BrE), caviled (AmE) | | he, she, it | has cavilled (BrE), caviled (AmE) | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had cavilled (BrE), caviled (AmE) | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will cavil | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have cavilled (BrE), caviled (AmE) |
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| Present | I | am cavilling (BrE), caviling (AmE) | | he, she, it | is cavilling (BrE), caviling (AmE) | | you, we, they | are cavilling (BrE), caviling (AmE) | | Past | I, he, she, it | was cavilling (BrE), caviling (AmE) | | you, we, they | were cavilling (BrE), caviling (AmE) | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been cavilling (BrE), caviling (AmE) | | he, she, it | has been cavilling (BrE), caviling (AmE) | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been cavilling (BrE), caviling (AmE) | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be cavilling (BrE), caviling (AmE) | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been cavilling (BrE), caviling (AmE) |
- Although Chief Constables cavil occasionally they treat circulars as commands.
- However, my purpose here is not to cavil, nor to review the exhibition as a whole.
- No one could cavil with that, either then, or in historical retrospect.
 They cavilled at our calculations.—cavil noun [countable, uncountable] |