Words similar to cavil

Example sentences for: cavil

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Confronted with allegations about campaign-finance irregularities or with questions about her husband's business dealings, Ferraro has bobbed and weaved with Clintonian deftness: Hand out a few documents, hedge, cavil, deny, admit with explanation.
His style is light and entertaining, and I should be nitpicking at trifles were I to cavil at his rare sacrifices of accuracy for the sake of simplification.
If I have one cavil with the book, it is that there is no conceivable reason for the subtitle to use an before historical.
My only cavil is with the compositor's (editor's, and proofreader's) apparent ignorance of the accepted hyphenation of the word English : after, not before the -g-.
Reviewing dictionaries of this kind--those similar in content and purpose to what are called “college” or “desk” dictionaries in the US--is probably quite useless in providing guidance to potential purchasers: there is always the temptation to carp at omissions, cavil at what are seen as infelicities in defining and other information, and argue one's case against the theories that are reflected in the organization of the text.