- 看过 caviling 的人也看了 :
- carp
- criticize
- find fault
caviling 的 3 个定义
cav·iled, cav·il·ing or cav·illed, cav·il·ling.
- to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily: He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.
cav·iled, cav·il·ing or cav·illed, cav·il·ling.
- to oppose by inconsequential, frivolous, or sham objections: to cavil each item of a proposed agenda.
- a trivial and annoying objection.
- the raising of such objections.
caviling 近义词
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caviling 的近义词 3 个
更多caviling例句
- It would be foolish to cavil about living in any city, with its many pleasures and diversions, he says.
- There is no hesitation, cavil, or debate in the acceptance of it as a duty.
- I should n't want to have it go abroad that we had not acted formally, if there was any one disposed to cavil.
- Of this he complains, with some cause, as it afterwards occasioned numbers of unsanctified critics to laugh and cavil at him.
- Some discontented Frerons or Arnauds, might cavil against it: but this was rebellion, not controversy.
- This appeared to be a contradiction in terms, but public apathy accepted it without cavil.