Meanings of caviling in anglès

Nothing is said so simply that it cannot be distorted by caviling.

There will be no caviling at the satisfying antiquity of Fuenterrabia.

These are palpable facts, about which, as facts, there can be no caviling.

You are a captious, caviling, carping, crabbed, contentious, cantankerous chap.

How fond she was of caviling at Christian lives!

The Parisian pitch and the French pitch, on the contrary, are accepted without caviling as synonymous.

It is simplicity and not worldly arrogance, obedience and not caviling; first as a daughter, then as a wife.

He had been twice wounded in his country's service, and he was rewarded by jealousy, caviling, and a court-martial.

And while I'm not caviling, you will pardon me, son, if I suggest that hereafter you play square with me.

But Imbesi better damn well have a good reason-andexplain it to us fully, too, none of his usual caviling.

It is our good fortune to know such a man; but it is difficult to present him to a scientific and caviling generation.

Cease this miserable caviling which you and Joseph are at work on night and day-ridiculous for him, and still less appropriate for you.

But all the judges are alike for that, keeping a poor shirt up sometimes until midnight, listening to cursed dull lawyers, and prosy, caviling witnesses.

Cavilings, logical or physical, are of no avail to me.

One at least, who was constrained to say the other thing in public, made up for it by bitter and contemptuous cavilings in private.

It betrayed him into visionary speculations, which subjected him to the sneers and cavilings of men of cooler and safer but more groveling minds.