cavil

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- - cavalier
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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cavil /ˈkav(ə)l/

▶verb (cavils, cavilling, cavilled; US cavils, caviling, caviled) make petty or unnecessary objections. ▶noun a petty or unnecessary objection.

– derivatives
caviller noun.

– origin C16: from Fr. caviller, from L. cavillari, from cavilla ‘mockery’.

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