NOUN
- an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
VERB
- raise trivial objections
How To Use cavil In A Sentence
- Cavil, Doral and another Simon how long have you got buddy? find the dead doctor Simon and once again Cavil shows himself to be a pathetic military planner, he admits he "miscalculated" Boomer's actions. VARIANTS: DAYBREAK, PT II - REVIEW
- My only cavil about Aden Gillett's neurotically suave Charles is that he sometimes puts emotion before diction so that you lose the full richness of his past relationship with the vividly polysyllabic Mrs Winthrop-Llewellyn.
- It had made her radiant, glorifying her substance without cavil or complaint. SACRAMENT
- If a player of Beardsley's ability was available now, one whose intelligence brought the best out of so many partners while scoring more than 200 goals himself, there would be little cavilling at a fee of more than £20m. Darren Bent is the latest in a long line of lone wolves | Rob Bagchi
- * Quia nihil hoc cavilla proficiunt Judaei, ad figmentum venturi sui Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
- EDITOR: The watchdog being the Audit Commission, normally known for cavilling about spending Archive 2009-08-01
- It's a fantastic achievement - and one in the eye for those who have carped and cavilled about the underperformance of Great Britain's competitors in Athens.
- Ancona is especially fed up with critics who cavil that ‘if you're doing impressions, you're not acting’.
- The noble cavalier characterized," "& a rebellious caviller cauterized," 1644 _or_ 5. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
- It is a little late for them to cavil about the details having delayed 11 years on delivering it.
