A disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections.
1The cavilers in the Museum might take example from him.
2The housekeeper was now able to silence all cavilers by producing the book itself.
3Then we went down into a cavern which cavilers say was once a cistern.
4Proofs like these are not to be set aside by the idle tongues of cavilers.
5So you may show to cavilers your painting Of the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel.
6CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.
7In Bunyan's time, there were comparatively few of these cavilers; now their name is Legion-(ED)
8After all was ready, the cavilers were invited to view the performance, but they were no better pleased.
9We can tell cavilers that we shall have a spire at the proper time, and not a minute before.
10Are cavilers less numerous?
11Cavilers object that water boils at a lower and lower temperature the higher and higher you go, and hence the apparent anomaly.
12He had done well, and she was eminently the right kind of wife for him, let conventional cavilers say what they would.
13As soon as they found us firmly resolved on our own course, they did as all cavilers do in similar circumstances-letus alone.