Words and phrases that have a meaning related to cavilling: (121 results)
Often used in the same context:
Also try:posturing, carping, slothfulness, pusillanimity, hypocritic, gaucherie, flatteries, parti pris, irrelevancies, disingenuity, prolixity, infra dig, pompousness, charlatanry, anglophobia, hyperboles, drivelling, unwisdom, francophobia, brownism, dilettantism, repugnantly, tautologies, disputations, delphic, wishfulness, dogmatist, prevarication, harrumphing, tu quoque, fussbudget, anodyne, sanctimoniousness, peculation, quibbling, hairsplitting, ineloquent, polemics, waffly, superciliousness, quibblers, vulgarisation, persiflage, obstreperousness, fatuousness, solipsist, judeophobia, claptrap, truckling, sourpusses, hectoring, pontificating, circumlocutions, expostulation, prate, amour propre, unjustness, faits accomplis, rabidity, antisemite, duplicity, nonentities, controversialist, piggishness, unrealism, sophists, jingoist, vacuousness, spinelessness, loth, triviality, establishmentarian, fustian, dissembling, humbug, gutlessness, sneery, moralizing, grandiloquence, reactionism, ennoblement, facetiousness, enfeeblement, presumptuousness, duumvirate, infelicities, infamies, speciesist, mot juste, baldfaced, juvenility, fuddle, flapdoodle, politer, unsayable, quietism, farrago, meddlesomeness, sulker, soft soaping, panglossian, contumely, cavil, cavils, quibbles, quibble, technicality, subterfuge, wrangling, evasions, excuses, pretexts, sophistry, subtilty, trifling, wranglings, altercation, arguing, casuistry, conjecture, disputation
— Adjectives for cavilling: such, much, mere, petty, perfect, minute, captious, useless, further, bold, idle, more...
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