Usually means: Nitpicking over trivial matters excessively.
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  1. caviling: Merriam-Webster
  2. caviling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. caviling: Vocabulary.com
  4. caviling: Wordnik
  5. caviling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. caviling: Wiktionary
  7. caviling: Dictionary.com
  8. Caviling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. caviling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. caviling: Rhymezone
  11. Caviling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. caviling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. caviling: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Caviling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. caviling: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  cavilation

Similar:
pettifogging, quibbling, carping, nitpicking, critical, cavilation, callidity, cavel, caddism, caveloin, more...

Opposite:
approving, accepting, agreeing, praising

Types:
quibbling, nitpicking, red herring, straw man, ad hominem, ad populum, more...

Adjectives:
much, such, mere, petty, captious, future, perpetual

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Similar:
pettifogging, quibbling, carping, nitpicking, critical, cavilation, callidity, cavel, caddism, caveloin, more...

Opposite:
approving, accepting, agreeing, praising

Types:
quibbling, nitpicking, red herring, straw man, ad hominem, ad populum, more...

Adjectives:
much, such, mere, petty, captious, future, perpetual



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