If your only cavil to your family's trip to Disney World is that you don't like airline food, you're not representing the anti Mickey side of the argument very well. A cavil is a small or petty objection.
To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.
Noun
an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
Verb
raise trivial objections
v. i.
To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault
without good reason.
v. t.
To cavil at.
n.
A captious or frivolous objection.
Cavil
You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract.
Cavil
Cavil
All the cavils of prejudice and unbelief.
To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.
To cavil at.
A captious or frivolous objection.
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