Synonyms for CAVIL
ˈkæv əlcav·il

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1. cavilverb

   Synonyms:
   pettifog, split hairs, hypercritical, nitpick

2. cavilverb

   To criticise for petty or frivolous reasons.

   Synonyms:
   split hairs, nitpick, pettifog, hypercritical

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1. quibble, quiddity, cavilverb

   an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

   Synonyms:
   quibble, haecceity, cavil, quiddity

2. cavil, carp, chicaneverb

   raise trivial objections

   Synonyms:
   cheat, jockey, screw, chouse, cavil, carp, shaft, chicane

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1. cavilnoun

   Synonyms:
   frivolous objection, captious criticism, unwarranted censure, fallacious reason, sophistical argument

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1. cavilnoun

   Synonyms:
   objection, criticism (specious or frivolous)

2. cavilverb

   Synonyms:
   carp, criticize

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1. Walt Whitman:

   I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.