CAVILLING

Meaning of CAVILLING in English

() of Cavil

Webster's English dictionary. Английский словарь Webster. 2012

CAVILLING — adjective see caviling
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CAVILLING — of Cavil
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
CAVILLING — of cavil.
Webster English vocab
CAVILLING — a. 1. Captious, censorious, carping, critical, hypercritical, disposed to cavil, given to fault-finding. 2. Specious, sophistical, plausible, tricky.
Dictionary of English Synonyms
CAVILLING — 1. сущ. кляузничество, сутяжничество Syn : barratry, pettifogging 2. прил. придирчивый Syn : captious, carping, fault-finding, censorious, hair-splitting, hypercritical, pedantic, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
CAVILLING — Придирка
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
CAVILLING — придираться кляузничество, сутяжничество придирчивый
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
CAVILLING — 1. сущ. кляузничество, сутяжничество Syn: barratry , pettifogging 2. прил. придирчивый Syn: captious , carping , fault-finding , censorious , …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
CAVILLING — 1. сущ. кляузничество, сутяжничество Syn: barratry, pettifogging 2. прил. придирчивый Syn: captious, carping, fault-finding, censorious, hair-splitting, hypercritical, pedantic, overparticular, faultfinding Ant: complimentary, encouraging, flattering, laudatory, approving, commendatory
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
CAVILLING — придираться кляузничество, сутяжничество придирчивый
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
CAVILLING — 1. сущ. кляузничество, сутяжничество Syn : barratry, pettifogging 2. прил. придирчивый Syn : captious, carping, fault-finding, censorious, hair-splitting, hypercritical, pedantic, …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
CAVIL — I. ˈkavəl, Brit often -vil verb ( caviled or cavilled ; caviled or cavilled ; caviling or cavilling -v(ə)liŋ, -vil- …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CAVILING — adjective or cavilling : disposed to cavil : inclined to find fault and raise picayune ill-grounded objections caviling pettifoggers and …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CAVIL — — caviler; esp. Brit., caviller , n. — cavilingly; esp. Brit., cavillingly , adv. /kav"euhl/ , v. , caviled, caviling …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CAVIL — cav ‧ il /ˈkæv ə l/ BrE AmE verb ( past tense and past participle cavilled , present participle cavilling …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
CAVIL — v. & n. --v.intr. (cavilled, cavilling; US caviled, caviling) (usu. foll. by at, about) make petty objections; carp. --n. a …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
CAVIL — v. & n. v.intr. (cavilled, cavilling; US caviled, caviling) (usu. foll. by at, about) make petty objections; carp. n. a …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
CAVIL — v. & n. --v.intr. (cavilled, cavilling; US caviled, caviling) (usu. foll. by at, about) make petty objections; carp. --n. a …
Oxford English vocab
CAVIL — ( cavils, cavilling, cavilled) Note: in AM, use 'caviling', 'caviled' If you say that someone cavils at something, you mean …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SARCASTIC — Synonyms and related words : Rabelaisian, acerb, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, captious, carping, caustic, cavilling, censorious, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
PEEVISH — Synonyms and related words : Jeremianic, acrimonious, bad-tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bilious, bitching, cantankerous, captious, carping, catty, caviling, cavilling, churlish, complaining, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
OVERCRITICAL — Synonyms and related words : captious, carping, caviling, cavilling, censorious, critic, critical, cynical, demanding, difficult, exacting, fastidious, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
LEGALISTIC — Synonyms and related words : cavilling, contentious, conventionalized, disputatious, extrinsic, fine, forensic, formal, formalist, formalistic, formulary, hair-splitting, impersonal, jurisprudent, jurisprudential, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
GRIPE
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
FAULT-FINDING — Synonyms and related words : captious, captiousness, carping, cavilling, censorious, censure, contentious, critical, criticism, fussiness, fussy, hair-splitting, hypercritical, hypercriticism, niggling, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
CARPING — I . a. Cavilling, censorious, captious, hypercritical. II . n. Censure, cavil, fault-finding, hyper-criticism, captious criticism.
Dictionary of English Synonyms
PETULANT — a. 1. Irascible, irritable, fretful, peevish, hasty, touchy, testy, crusty, pettish, waspish, choleric, snappish, snarling, cross, crabbed, captious, censorious, acrimonious, …
Dictionary of English Synonyms
ERISTIC — a. ; ( also ~al ) ( Not used of persons .) 1. Controversial, polemic ( al ), controversive, disputative. …
Dictionary of English Synonyms
DISPUTATIOUS — a. Cavilling, captious, contentious, quarrelsome, polemical.
Dictionary of English Synonyms
FAULT — finding n. 1 criticism, censure, carping, cavilling, captiousness, hypercriticism, quibbling, fussiness, hair-splitting, pettifogging, Colloq nit-picking, pickiness Why continue to put …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab

Английский словарь Webster

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