单词 | caviller |
释义 | caviller (once / 60303 pages) n WORD FAMILY caviller: cavillers USAGE EXAMPLESLet the insular cavillers at Donnelly, just because he is an American, hide their diminished heads. Various, Punch or the London Charivari, Vol....(2012) It is one which has long been applied in Germany to petty cavillers and incompetent critics. Fuller, Margaret, Life Without and Life Within—or, Re...(2012) The caviller will perhaps ask, concerning some of the rambling observations contained in this chapter, and the subject which has called them forth, Cui bono? Lower, Mark Antony, The Curiosities of Heraldry(2012) n a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections Syn|Hyper caviler, pettifogger, quibbler malcontent a person who is discontented or disgusted |
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