Cavil is valid Scrabble Word

Is cavil a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is cavil valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for CAVIL in dictionary:

VERB:

to raise trivial and frivolous objections
make petty or unnecessary objections
make petty objections
To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.
To cavil at.
raise trivial objections

NOUN:

a petty or unnecessary objection.
A captious or frivolous objection.
an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
petty objection

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to carp

Words related to CAVIL

caviled13 caviler12 cavilers13 caviling14 cavilled14 caviller13 cavillers14 cavilling15 cavils11

Words that contain CAVIL

cavils11 caviled13 caviler12 cavilers13 caviling14 cavilled14 caviller13 outcavil13 cavillers14 cavilling15 outcavils14 cavillings16 outcaviled16 cavillation16 outcaviling17 outcavilled17 cavillations17 outcavilling18

How to use CAVIL in a sentence

However, I am in no position to cavil at even a 100 to 1 shot.
We exaggerate our own merits when they are denied by others, and are apt to grudge and cavil at every particle of praise bestowed on those to whom we feel a conscious superiority.
They held in them far nobler elements, as is proved beyond cavil by the words of many of the earliest missionaries themselves.
Not a man was left, of any caste or shade of nativity, to utter a word to gainsay or cavil with the noble and high public manner in which these proceedings were done.
Every medical student has either seen for himself or been assured by his professor that post mortem examinations have disclosed this truth beyond all cavil.
His civility and hospitality, while lacking in the deference of other men of her acquaintance, were beyond cavil.
Land was looming up, in the western board, so distinctly as to admit of no cavil about its presence.
It showed, no doubt, that Gibberne has still much to learn before his preparation is a manageable convenience, but its practicability it certainly demonstrated beyond all cavil.
Augustus Richards could have wished for, nor was there one weak spot in the armor of her character at which he could cavil.
He is a Frenchman of Frenchmen beyond question or cavil, and with that he is simple enough to be universally comprehensible.

Blot out, then, from their hearts all that may induce Thy servants to cavil at Thy Cause.
If ye find it to be established in truth, if ye believe it to be of God, beware, then, lest ye cavil at it, and render your works vain, and be numbered with the infidels.
Their adaptability to their new duties is beyond cavil.
When such a man dies out from among us, let critics cavil as they may about time wasted in memorial addresses.
The truth of the foregoing statements is established beyond all cavil.
Their ministers have signed preliminary articles, some of which, however, leave room for further cavil.
Hume, disposed as he was at all times to cavil about figures.
Her feminine soul could not cavil when Bill thrust them in the pocket of her coat, even if her mind was set against accepting any peace tokens at his hands.
But now she understood beyond cavil that because she had opened her eyes, the girl was giving thanks to the Deity.
It was all cut and dried, and there was really nothing to cavil at.
The Lawyer said that Herbert was a Pup, beyond all Cavil.
It is beyond doubt or cavil that high ideals heretofore have prevailed in the Philippine Civil Service.
It is not one of those learned books in which you have to cavil at almost every paragraph.
Yet in the enchantment of motion, sound and form, it seems mean-spirited to cavil at a want of something greater.
Both works are distinguished by a spirit of puerile cavil, which would of itself almost suffice to reconcile us to the worst faults of the poet.
There is still another cavil to which it may be needful to refer.
The American reader will be inclined to cavil at the last-mentioned object.
Even Lady Bassett could not cavil when her charge spoke of going to nursery tea at Mrs.
It then bore a better appearance, and was less open to cavil.
It is wiser to be thankful that a man of genius was at hand to voice the view, than to cavil at its narrow outook.
If I appear to approve it, that the world may not cavil and you complain, it will be little more than an appearance.
That was his concern, not ours, so we need not cavil at it.
It is useless to cavil at an author because of the means by which he produces his effects.
When cavil yields more fully to examination, the system will have large additions to the number of its friends.
Beyond all controversy or cavil it is strictly in order.
He was enormously in demand, chiefly perhaps, among young married women whose respectability and social position were alike beyond cavil.

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