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Значения термина caviling на английском
Синонимы
Examples for "carping"
Examples for "carping"
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In the Presidential debate Carter came across as carping, pinched and humorless.
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No carping: glad to share the spotlight with the newspaper of record.
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Priestley was a West Yorkshireman, built for a certain kind of carping.
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Their carping, quarrelsome attitude had taken all the pleasure from knowing them.
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Shall we never have done with this carping at people who succeed?
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But he didn't want to complicate an already delicate situation by quibbling.
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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.
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In light of an incredible 2014 for Seattle however, this is nitpicking.
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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.
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This would all seem like nitpicking if the stakes weren't so high.
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In a sense he is right, but it's the nitpicking debater talking here.
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He believed in fair play and despised sharp practice and pettifogging tricks.
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Jack considered him more of a pettifogging bureaucrat than an intelligence officer.
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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.
Использование термина caviling на английском
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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.
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One at least, who was constrained to say the other thing in public, made up for it by bitter and contemptuous cavilings in private.
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It betrayed him into visionary speculations, which subjected him to the sneers and cavilings of men of cooler and safer but more groveling minds.