Synonym: carp, chicane, quibble, quiddity. Similar words: cavity, heavily, cave, cavern, caveat, cave in, scavenge, excavate. Meaning: ['kævɪl] 
n. an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections. v. raise trivial objections.
n. an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections. v. raise trivial objections. 
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1. Let us not cavil too much.
2. A carper will cavil at anything.
3. I don't think this is the time to cavil at the wording of the report.
4. The one cavil I have about the book is that it is written as a diary.
5. However, my purpose here is not to cavil, nor to review the exhibition as a whole.
6. Although Chief Constables cavil occasionally they treat circulars as commands.
7. No one could cavil with that, either then, or in historical retrospect.
8. Even he could find nothing to cavil about.
9. Anne, far from wishing to cavil at the pleasure, replied, "I can easily believe it."
10. Cavil will enter in at any hole,[sentencedict.com] and if it finds none if will make one.
11. Most practitioners reject the idea of a " new science " and cavil even at the word futurology.
12. There was a time when people loved to carp and cavil at the post-1980s generation, either referring to them as the "beat generation" or claiming they were wet behind the ears.