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Noun cavil has 1 sense
  1. quibble, quiddity, cavil - an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
    --1 is a kind of evasion, equivocation
    Derived form: verb cavil1
,Verb cavil has 1 sense
  1. cavil, carp, chicane - raise trivial objections
    --1 is one way to object
    Derived forms: noun caviller1, noun caviler1, noun cavil1
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