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Adjective caviling has 1 sense
caviling, carping, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibbling - quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics"Antonym:  uncritical (indirect, via critical)
 
 
Verb cavil has 1 sense
cavil, carp, chicane - raise trivial objections--1 is one way to object
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