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cavilers

cavilers is the plural of caviler.

Meaning of caviler

Noun

caviler (plural cavilers)

  1. A person who cavils; a faultfinder, quibbler or nitpicker
    • a man who comments on the Bible affords all the opportunity a caviler could wish for.1817 John Nicholas - Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century

Questions about cavilers

What is cavilers the plural of?
Cavilers is the plural of caviler.

Words near cavilers in the dictionary

  1. cavil
  2. cavilation
  3. cavilations
  4. caviled
  5. caviler
  6. cavilers
  7. caviling
  8. cavilingly
  9. cavilings
  10. Cavill
  11. cavillation

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