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Meanings of caviller in anglès
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sofista A disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections.
Synonyms
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
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.
Usage of caviller in anglès
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.'")
6
He checked the impertinence, and silenced the vanity of captious cavillers.
7
But the cavillers were quite wrong in their conclusion.
8
There were scoffers and cavillers then as now.
9
FIFTH, And to silence cavillers, I shall also show the necessity of this office of Jesus Christ.
10
There were not wanting ungenerous cavillers to insinuate doubts that he and Burke had been at the Gulf.
11
The philosophic conclusion justly deducible from this view of God, let cavillers say what they will, is Optimism.
12
It is of those men of genius that Terrence speaks in opposition to the little artificial cavillers of his time:
13
For the understanding, in spite of sensual cavillers, reserves to itself the privilege of conveying pure joy to the heart.
14
"Well and good," said George; "then we cavillers are inevitable too.
15
She would not wound his feelings by too close an inquiry, but she felt armed at all points against cavillers.
16
Time is coming when due course of law will have an end, and all cavillers will be cast over the bar.
Frequent collocations
Caviller through the time