CAVIL in a Sentence
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Example sentences for CAVIL, such as:
1. It's fine when you make sensible criticisms, but it really bugs me when you cavil about unimportant details.
2. Miss Ophelia felt rather disposed to cavil at this picture, and was laying down her knitting to begin, but St. Clare stopped her.
2. Miss Ophelia felt rather disposed to cavil at this picture, and was laying down her knitting to begin, but St. Clare stopped her.
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Meanings and Examples of CAVIL
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cavil
v. criticise for petty or frivolous reasons; raise trivial objections
Classic Sentence:
1 The count appeared, dressed with the greatest simplicity, but the most fastidious dandy could have found nothing to cavil at in his toilet.
2 Miss Ophelia felt rather disposed to cavil at this picture, and was laying down her knitting to begin, but St. Clare stopped her.
3 Anne, far from wishing to cavil at the pleasure, replied, "I can easily believe it."
4 Yes, both the bay, the Assessor, and the skewbald accounted residence at Tientietnikov's a most comfortable affair, and voted the oats excellent, and the arrangement of the stables beyond all cavil.
Example Sentence:
1 It's fine when you make sensible criticisms, but it really bugs me when you cavil about unimportant details.