Words and phrases that have a meaning related to caviling: (125 results)
Often used in the same context:
wrongheadedness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, priggishness, gaucherie, flapdoodle, charlatanry, cravenness, hectoring, unseemliness, sophistries, pompousness, misspeaks, dissembler, pedantry, quibblers, mudslinger, carping, dogmatist, incoherency, harrumphing, moralizing, martinets, blowhard, bootlicking, jackanapes, inanity, snippiness, irrelevancies, pusillanimity, parti pris, hairsplitting, officiousness, repugnantly, bafflegab, disingenuity, prevaricator, knavery, toadying, mendacities, underminer, incuriosity, tendentiousness, egotists, hyperboles, pontificator, peevishness, uptightness, superciliousness, snits, tautologies, vacuousness, backslider, snivel, presentism, sarcasms, arguers, churlishness, sophistic, waffly, establishmentarian, facetiousness, idiocies, ineloquent, baldfaced, buncombe, blitheness, unscrupulousness, picayune, nitpicking, inarticulateness, pugnaciousness, blabbermouth, ineffectualness, jabberwocky, loquacity, flatterers, logorrhea, contumely, fatuousness, dilettantism, nefariousness, lugubriousness, sneers, boehner, speciousness, nothingism, weepiness, milksop, raillery, prating, crabbiness, pomposity, inconsequentiality, prolixity, tsks, brownism, speciesist, bloviate, journalese, hypocrisies, clownishness, cavil, annoyance, blackmail, cavilling, cavils, faultfinding, freehold, haggling, insubordination, jockeying, plundering, raiding, recrimination, strife, wrangling, abstinence, adventurism, aliment, altercation, arguing
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Also try:critical, pettifogging, quibbling
— Adjectives for caviling: much, such, mere, petty, captious, future, perpetual
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