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Findfault

A censurer or caviler

Quibbler

One who quibbles a caviler also a punster

Quibble

A shift or turn from the point in question a trifling or evasive distinction an evasion a cavil

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Findfaulting

Apt to censure or cavil faultfinding captious

Captious

Apt to catch at faults disposed to find fault or to cavil eager to object difficult to please

Disputative

Disposed to dispute inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition as a disputative temper

Chicane

The use of artful subterfuge designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question specifically applied to legal proceedings trickery chicanery caviling sophistry

Carping

Fault finding censorious caviling See Captious

Carper

One who carps a caviler

Vitilitigate

Vitilitigate, to litigate cavillously.

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