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Significats de caviler en anglès
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sofista A disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections.
Sinònims
Examples for "pettifogger"
Examples for "pettifogger"
1
You seem to think you are talking to some other pettifogger.
2
He perhaps mistakes me for what you call a-a pettifogger, is it not?
3
Bringing John D. Rockefeller's own personal pettifogger with him too.
4
Stephen Hawk, the ex-district attorney: boomer, pettifogger, promoter- achartermember of the Gaston wolf-pack
5
The tetrarch sank to rise a pettifogger, a spendthrift, ruined by his own follies.
1
The quibbler, however, is welcome to anything he may find.
2
Before his pictures we can only stand silent-hedisarms criticism and strikes the quibbler dumb.
3
He is no splitter of hairs, no quibbler.
4
General Colley was no quibbler with words.
5
Any quibbler can twist the meaning of words, while only those who think the thought can understand.
1
Surely none but a caviller will find any want of harmony between these different modes of expression.
2
The little caviller was silent.
3
And a caviller might raise all the same objections to the Copernican system, which you have urged against my reasonings.
4
And now in this Koran we have presented to man similitudes of every kind: but, at most things is man a caviller.
5
In what formed the postscript to the following letter, Darwin wrote: "I have had more Catasetums,-allright, you audacious 'caviller.'")
Ús de caviler en anglès
1
The cavilers in the Museum might take example from him.
2
The housekeeper was now able to silence all cavilers by producing the book itself.
3
Then we went down into a cavern which cavilers say was once a cistern.
4
Proofs like these are not to be set aside by the idle tongues of cavilers.
5
So you may show to cavilers your painting Of the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel.
6
CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.
7
In Bunyan's time, there were comparatively few of these cavilers; now their name is Legion-(ED)
8
After all was ready, the cavilers were invited to view the performance, but they were no better pleased.
9
We can tell cavilers that we shall have a spire at the proper time, and not a minute before.
10
Are cavilers less numerous?
11
Cavilers object that water boils at a lower and lower temperature the higher and higher you go, and hence the apparent anomaly.
12
He had done well, and she was eminently the right kind of wife for him, let conventional cavilers say what they would.
13
As soon as they found us firmly resolved on our own course, they did as all cavilers do in similar circumstances-letus alone.