Usually means: Finding fault in petty things.
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  1. cavilling: Merriam-Webster
  2. cavilling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cavilling: Vocabulary.com
  4. cavilling: Wordnik
  5. cavilling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. cavilling: Wiktionary
  7. Cavilling, cavilling: Dictionary.com
  8. Cavilling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Cavilling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. cavilling: FreeDictionary.org
  11. cavilling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cavilling: Legal dictionary

(Note: See cavil as well.)

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▸ noun:  cavillation

Similar:
cavillation, dickering, quibbling, vacillation, bangling, quavering, higgling, querulousness, kvetching, quarrelling, more...

Opposite:
approving, accepting, praising, complimenting

Types:
nitpicking, fault-finding, carping, quibbling, hypercriticism, captiousness, hair-splitting, more...

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Similar:
cavillation, dickering, quibbling, vacillation, bangling, quavering, higgling, querulousness, kvetching, quarrelling, more...

Opposite:
approving, accepting, praising, complimenting

Types:
nitpicking, fault-finding, carping, quibbling, hypercriticism, captiousness, hair-splitting, more...



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