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Example sentences for "caviling"

Lexicographically close words:
cavetto; caviar; caviare; cavies; cavil; cavilled; cavillers; cavilling; cavils; caving
  1. You are all murderers who stand here caviling about nonsense, while your victim is dying!

  2. It is true that vulgar curiosity and caviling incredulity were not gratified by the presence of specially summoned "physiologists, physicists, and chemists.

  3. A caviling criticism would demand: Why ask of the Christ to prophesy to those in His presence?

  4. For many, many years romancists persisted in attributing to their principal heroes every point of bodily perfection and accomplishment; no one thought then of caviling at such a well-understood and established type.

  5. And at no time hath the caviling of men, whether learned or unlearned, been a thing to rely on, nor will it be so.

  6. On that day the servants [of God] shall say what those caviling women said of yore, that there may appear in the end what began in the beginning.


  7. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caviling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    animadversion; aspersion; bickering; captious; carping; cavil; caviling; censorious; chicanery; contention; critic; critical; criticism; cross; cynical; dodging; equivocation; evasion; evasive; exception; fencing; flak; fretful; hedging; hit; hypercritical; imputation; knock; mendacity; nagging; niggling; nit; obloquy; parrying; peevish; pestering; petty; picayune; prevarication; quibble; quibbling; rap; reflection; shifting; shuffling; slam; stricture; subterfuge; swipe; trifling; trivial