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Word | Cavil |
French Meaning | ergoter, se plaindre, critiquer, chicaner, chercher la petite bête |
raise trivial objections / to complain, to find fault unnecessarily / A captious or frivolous objection. / an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections / make frivolous objections / a objection seen as petty or unnecessary. / to complain about things that are not important, | |
Usage | ⇒ I respect your sensible criticisms, but I dislike the way you cavil about unimporant details. ⇒ I don't intend to cavil or compromise. ⇒ But although I sympathise with almost all of what Todorov says, and applaud his achievement in saying it, I have a minor cavil about the way he gets his argument going. |
Synonyms | quibble, carp, criticize, complain, find fault, niggle, split hairs, equivocate, evade, haggle, censure, chicane, demur, dispute, fence, knock, nag, nitpick, pettifog, prevaricate, |
Antonyms | accept, acquiesce, abide, accede, acknowledge, acquire, admit, adopt, agree, assume, bear, believe, enact, espouse, have, receive, recognize, reconcile, suffer, suppose, |
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