Words and phrases that have a meaning related to cavil: (124 results)
Often used in the same context:
quibble, grumble, harrumph, demur, snigger, prolixity, presume, bromidic, tautologies, titter, ungrammatically, chunter, mutter, tut, rebarbative, elide, pedantry, delphic, damnably, charlatanry, sniffy, illogicality, sotto voce, syllogistic, perspicuity, wishfulness, prudishly, fatuity, overpraise, expostulation, pedantic, dilettantism, inarticulately, infelicities, belabour, churlish, obtusely, tautological, infelicitous, bray, snobbism, otiose, moan, argue, pedant, forsooth, pettifogging, purblind, factuality, facetiousness, waffly, kvetch, orotund, sophist, peevishly, fiddlesticks, scoff, unimprovable, simper, chortle, unsayable, gainsay, swiftian, quiddity, crudities, patronisingly, solecism, whinge, naysay, ineloquent, crossly, journalese, lament, tommyrot, enamour, sermonise, snicker, shavian, temporized, hortatory, peradventure, gaucherie, confessedly, tuts, tendentiousness, suppliant, quibblers, grandiloquence, mawkishly, disdainful, prissily, sophistries, guffaw, declaim, qualm, doubtless, eruditely, disobliging, cloy, sneers, opine, fulminate, cavils, scruple, excuse, subterfuge, pretence, pretense, pretext, pretexts, technicality, vexations, conjecture, quibbles, vexation, annoyance, emendation, offence, slight, sophism, worry
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— Adjectives for cavil: mere, little, much, further, possible, perfect, such, reasonable, future, only, paltry, more...
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