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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cavil .
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Examples
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But apparently these do authorize the Palestinian Authority to claim it, or else Mr. Errera would have caviled at the Palestinian Authority's demand.
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The historical debate over the Christianity or secularism of the Founders will continue to be caviled over ad infinitum.
Stuart Whatley: 'War on Christmas' Comes to the Fore Stuart Whatley 2010
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The historical debate over the Christianity or secularism of the Founders will continue to be caviled over ad infinitum.
Stuart Whatley: 'War on Christmas' Comes to the Fore Stuart Whatley 2010
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The historical debate over the Christianity or secularism of the Founders will continue to be caviled over ad infinitum.
Stuart Whatley: 'War on Christmas' Comes to the Fore Stuart Whatley 2010
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My stepfather, a mid-level Washington insider who spent twenty years working as a staffer for Democratic senators, caviled vigorously at the idea that the Democrats are the “Inner Party” and Republicans are the “Outer Party.”
An unwritten constitution is just as hard to violate as a written one « Isegoria 2008
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The historical debate over the Christianity or secularism of the Founders will continue to be caviled over ad infinitum.
Stuart Whatley: 'War on Christmas' Comes to the Fore Stuart Whatley 2010
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The historical debate over the Christianity or secularism of the Founders will continue to be caviled over ad infinitum.
Stuart Whatley: 'War on Christmas' Comes to the Fore Stuart Whatley 2010
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The reviewer who sarcashcally caviled that the story should have been about the "Last Woman" would have been far more perceptive to realize what I helieve Mary Shelley herself knew full well:
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Though many critics caviled at the show's video display and the lack of scholarly apparatus, some appreciated its modest scale -- and none could really argue with the crowds that ceaselessly thronged it.
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Mookie Wilson and Lenny Dykstra caviled about having to platoon in center.
Baseball’s Even Greater Insults Kevin Nelson 1993
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