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Meanings of caviling in English
Synonyms
Examples for "carping"
Examples for "carping"
1
In the Presidential debate Carter came across as carping, pinched and humorless.
2
No carping: glad to share the spotlight with the newspaper of record.
3
Priestley was a West Yorkshireman, built for a certain kind of carping.
4
Their carping, quarrelsome attitude had taken all the pleasure from knowing them.
5
Shall we never have done with this carping at people who succeed?
1
But he didn't want to complicate an already delicate situation by quibbling.
2
There's no Gallagher-esque quibbling rivalry, nor does one brother take obvious charge.
3
Your quibbling is childish and unbecoming to a man of your age.
4
This was no time for quibbling-notime for nice shadings of propriety.
5
Against Arsenal, Mourinho was probably alone in quibbling with the result.
1
In light of an incredible 2014 for Seattle however, this is nitpicking.
2
Annoyed and frustrated, Ryan had passed the time nitpicking everything I said.
3
But Eco manages to make these sorts of nitpicking interludes progressively beguiling.
4
This would all seem like nitpicking if the stakes weren't so high.
5
In a sense he is right, but it's the nitpicking debater talking here.
1
He believed in fair play and despised sharp practice and pettifogging tricks.
2
Jack considered him more of a pettifogging bureaucrat than an intelligence officer.
3
We can't help it; we put the pettifogging first and the people second.
4
The issues involved are too big and far-reaching for pettifogging methods.
5
The opposition did not propose to waste effort on pettifogging preliminaries.
Usage of caviling in English
1
Nothing is said so simply that it cannot be distorted by caviling.
2
There will be no caviling at the satisfying antiquity of Fuenterrabia.
3
These are palpable facts, about which, as facts, there can be no caviling.
4
You are a captious, caviling, carping, crabbed, contentious, cantankerous chap.
5
How fond she was of caviling at Christian lives!
6
The Parisian pitch and the French pitch, on the contrary, are accepted without caviling as synonymous.
7
It is simplicity and not worldly arrogance, obedience and not caviling; first as a daughter, then as a wife.
8
He had been twice wounded in his country's service, and he was rewarded by jealousy, caviling, and a court-martial.
9
And while I'm not caviling, you will pardon me, son, if I suggest that hereafter you play square with me.
10
But Imbesi better damn well have a good reason-andexplain it to us fully, too, none of his usual caviling.
11
It is our good fortune to know such a man; but it is difficult to present him to a scientific and caviling generation.
12
Cease this miserable caviling which you and Joseph are at work on night and day-ridiculous for him, and still less appropriate for you.
13
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.
14
Cavilings, logical or physical, are of no avail to me.
15
One at least, who was constrained to say the other thing in public, made up for it by bitter and contemptuous cavilings in private.
16
It betrayed him into visionary speculations, which subjected him to the sneers and cavilings of men of cooler and safer but more groveling minds.