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Meanings of caviler in inglês

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A disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections.

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Usage of caviler in inglês
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The cavilers in the Museum might take example from him.
A Thorny Path — Volume 10
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The housekeeper was now able to silence all cavilers by producing the book itself.
Recollections of the late William Beckford / of Fonthill, Wilts ...
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Then we went down into a cavern which cavilers say was once a cistern.
The Innocents Abroad
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Proofs like these are not to be set aside by the idle tongues of cavilers.
The Innocents Abroad
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So you may show to cavilers your painting Of the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.
The Devil's Dictionary
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In Bunyan's time, there were comparatively few of these cavilers; now their name is Legion-(ED)
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
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After all was ready, the cavilers were invited to view the performance, but they were no better pleased.
Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and C...
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We can tell cavilers that we shall have a spire at the proper time, and not a minute before.
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1
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Are cavilers less numerous?
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
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Cavilers object that water boils at a lower and lower temperature the higher and higher you go, and hence the apparent anomaly.
A Tramp Abroad
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He had done well, and she was eminently the right kind of wife for him, let conventional cavilers say what they would.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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As soon as they found us firmly resolved on our own course, they did as all cavilers do in similar circumstances-letus alone.
Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure
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