CAVILLING Synonyms

• persistent petty and unjustified criticism

• marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws

• at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction

• characterized by careful evaluation and judgment

• being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency

• of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism

• urgently needed; absolutely necessary

• forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis

• persistent petty and unjustified criticism

• tending to make moral judgments or judgments based on personal opinions

• tending to find and call attention to faults

• inclined to judge too severely

• easily irritated or annoyed

• habitually complaining

• be overly critical; criticize minor details

• be overly critical; criticize minor details

• argue over petty things

• the lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed; can be baked or braised

• any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae

• raise trivial objections

• a bridge hand that is void of trumps

• a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

• defeat someone through trickery or deceit

• raise trivial objections

• an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

• evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections

• argue over petty things

• an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

• the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other