cavilling
21cavil — caviler; esp. Brit., caviller, n. cavilingly; esp. Brit., cavillingly, adv. /kav euhl/, v., caviled, caviling or (esp. Brit.) cavilled, cavilling, n. v.i. 1. to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually fol.… …
22Immaculate Conception — • In the Constitution Ineffabilis Deus of 8 December, 1854, Pius IX pronounced and defined that the Blessed Virgin Mary in the first instance of her conception, by a singular privilege and grace granted by God, in view of the merits of Jesus… …
23irreverent — adjective a) Lacking proper respect or seriousness; sarcastic. b) Disrespectful, cynical, cavilling, querulous, or vulgar, where ones own feelings, or especially deference to the feelings of others, customarily …
24cavillation — noun The act of cavilling …
25petulant — I adjective acrimonious, annoyed, argumentative, bad tempered, bearish, cantankerous, captious, carping, cavilling, censorious, choleric, churlish, contentious, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross tempered, crusty, curmudgeonly, difficult,… …
26fault-finding — Synonyms and related words: captious, captiousness, carping, cavilling, censorious, censure, contentious, critical, criticism, fussiness, fussy, hair splitting, hypercritical, hypercriticism, niggling, nit picking, pettifogging, picky, querulous …
27gripe — Synonyms and related words: abduct, ache, aching, adhere to, afflict, aggravate, agonize, ail, air a grievance, angina, annoy, backache, badger, bait, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, be at, bear hug, bedevil, beef, beefing, beggarliness, beggary …
28legalistic — Synonyms and related words: cavilling, contentious, conventionalized, disputatious, extrinsic, fine, forensic, formal, formalist, formalistic, formulary, hair splitting, impersonal, jurisprudent, jurisprudential, literal, litigious, narrow minded …
29overcritical — Synonyms and related words: captious, carping, caviling, cavilling, censorious, critic, critical, cynical, demanding, difficult, exacting, fastidious, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hair splitting, hairsplitting, harsh, hypercritical,… …
30peevish — Synonyms and related words: Jeremianic, acrimonious, bad tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bilious, bitching, cantankerous, captious, carping, catty, caviling, cavilling, churlish, complaining, complaintful, crabbed, crabbing, crabby, cranky,… …
