caviling , also: cavilling BrE

Overlooked in all this caviling is the actual ability and character of the person in question.

The caviling of the false-hearted is the mewling of sick cats.

Which is perhaps about as much caviling as this brainy and adventurous tale should bear.

Saddam, prideful to the last, left much of the caviling over prison conditions to his erstwhile minions.

There will be no caviling of carrion eaters over the corpse as there was when the Serke properties were divided.

I hereby retract all my previous caviling and dismissive responses to your pieces, as if my approval matters.

And it will mean putting up with endless critical caviling and preaching, without which the director of the New York Philharmonic would never feel at home.

This caviling may be difficult to follow, but to be more specific would be to reveal more about the plot than should be exposed for those unfamiliar with the play.

President Charles Logan (Greg Itzin) was irresistible as a caviling, craven commander in chief who manipulates his pill-addled first lady, Martha (Jean Smart).

"Born into changing times, Bob Dylan shaped history in song," it announces, and there's no caviling or second-guessing through each phase, up to Mr. Dylan's 1966 motorcycle accident and reclusion.

He said he had told the vice president that, despite the caviling of many Republican members of Congress, there was no point in passing a legislative plan unless it was better for the party than the court's proposed boundaries.

Accordingly, there will be no caviling here about the use of a picture of a winking wolf, perhaps meant to invoke a sensitive dances-with-wolves image for Mr. Clinton, amid the biographic and geographic scenes shown at the beginning of the gala at the Capital Center.