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1 quibbling
1. a уклончивый; туманный, двусмысленный2. a придирчивыйСинонимический ряд:1. complaining (adj.) ambiguous; arguing; carping; complaining; critical; disagreeing; hairsplitting; nitpicking; overcritical2. arguing (verb) arguing; bickering; contending; disputing; fighting; hassling; quarrelling; squabbling; tiffing; wrangling3. carping (verb) carping; cavilling; pettifogging4. caviling or cavilling (verb) caviling or cavilling; chicaning -
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a злой; недоброжелательный; язвительныйСинонимический ряд:1. caviling (adj.) caviling; fault finding; nagging; sarcastic; severe2. critical (adj.) captious; cavilling; cavillous; censorious; critic; critical; derogatory; faultfinding; hypercritical; overcritical; strict; trenchant3. carping (verb) carping; cavilling; pettifogging; quibbling4. picking (verb) fussing; nagging; pecking; picking
См. также в других словарях:
cavil — verb cavilled, cavilling BrE, caviled, caviling AmE (intransitive + at) formal to make unnecessary complaints about someone or something … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
cavil — I. /ˈkævəl / (say kavuhl) verb (i) (cavilled or, US, caviled, cavilling or, US, caviling) 1. (sometimes followed by at) to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault unnecessarily. –noun 2. a trivial and annoying objection …
cavil — [[t]kæ̱v(ə)l[/t]] cavils, cavilling, cavilled VERB: no passive (disapproval) If you say that someone cavils at something, you mean that they make criticisms of it that you think are unimportant or unnecessary. [FORMAL] Since the government has… … English dictionary
cavil — [ kav(ə)l] verb (cavils, cavilling, cavilled; US cavils, caviling, caviled) make petty or unnecessary objections. noun a petty or unnecessary objection. Derivatives caviller noun … English new terms dictionary
cavil — ► VERB (cavilled, cavilling; US caviled, caviling) ▪ make petty objections. ► NOUN ▪ a petty objection. ORIGIN Latin cavillari, from cavilla mockery … English terms dictionary
