Verb:

அற்பமான ஆட்சேபனை,

cavil's Usage Examples:

In the Musenalmanach were also published the "Xenien" (1797), a collection of distichs by Goethe and Schiller, in which the two friends avenged themselves on the cavilling critics who were not in sympathy with them.

There were also delays, hesitations and cavils at home, which were more inexplicable.

The most foolish and discreditable was certainly that of Davies; his unworthy attempt to depreciate the great historian's learning, and his captious, cavilling, acrimonious charges of petty inaccuracies and discreditable falsification gave the object of his attack an easy triumph.

"To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done, and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.

On the one hand, the general agreement everywhere between the Hebrew accounts and contemporaneous records from Mesopotamia proves beyond cavil that, broadly speaking, the Bible accounts are historically true, and were written by persons who in the main had access to contemporaneous documents.

In this letter, and especially in the postscript to the second edition of it, Newman finally silenced all cavillers as to his not being really at ease within the Roman Church.

Despite any cavils this is a good popular introduction for newcomers who want to know about the history and current beliefs of ley hunters.

I had some cavils about the Danse Infernale, whose ethnic roots are very visible.

Yet Hofland 's defense of the ideology of gender spheres is not so superannuated that it cavils at the role of women as writers.

he was a detestable intriguer, and had given his brother just offence by a series of deeds of high-handed violence and by perpetual cavilling.

Certain it is that there is much in his utterances for a less robust democracy than his own to cavil at.

Yet Hofland's defense of the ideology of gender spheres is not so superannuated that it cavils at the role of women as writers.

Synonyms:

evasion, quiddity, equivocation, quibble,

Antonyms:

payment, unequivocalness, unambiguity, truthfulness, approve,