An evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections.
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Examples for "cavil "
Examples for "cavil "
1 The Ontarian, in fact, did not object in a spirit of cavil .
2 No one would cavil with the Cork Constitution, Munster and Ireland wing.
3 The critics did not venture to cavil at his preaching to Gentiles.
4 It then bore a better appearance, and was less open to cavil .
5 And while the critics may carp and cavil , they're not buying tickets.
1 He knew it well, and was cognizant with its every legal quiddity .
2 There you indeed appreciate the dead-alive city 'in all its quiddity . '
3 Serial killers are the quiddity and quintessence of malignant narcissism.
4 We in WITCH consider ourselves the incarnate quiddity of revolution-blendingfemale rebellion with Leftist revolt.
5 George Orwell thought a quiddity of England was an old maid cycling through mist to church.
To bother persistently with trivial complaints.
1 He was right, of course, and there was no time to quibble .
2 You're in no position to talk of rights or quibble about titles.
3 There was barely a quibble about the charges during the information morning.
4 The woman was too downright in her honesty to quibble or fence.
5 But it is needless to quibble at a definition of the term.
6 One thing you can't quibble about with Slow West is its title.
7 Anyone who would quibble about it is doing so for quibbling's sake.
8 My only quibble is the constant tinkering with parts of the format.
9 And physicists, philosophers, and neuroscientists quibble over its qualities to this day.
10 Miss Iris had meant her playful retort as a mere light-hearted quibble .
11 To quibble away such an opportunity would be as cowardly as unwise.
12 But as his company was in desperate straits he could not quibble .
13 All this business was a miserable quibble , a tissue of scholastic technicalities.
14 Allow me to have one small quibble with the analysis, however.
15 Supporters might quibble , but he did a good enough job at Upton Park.
16 One quibble : two distracting interstitials at the beginning and midway through the set.
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