音标:['kæv(ə)l] ;
vi. 吹毛求疵;挑剔
vt. 吹毛求疵;无端指摘
n. 吹毛求疵;苛责;无端的指责
p. pr. & vb. n. of Cavil
a. Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See
Captious.

cavil的用法和样例:

例句

用作动词(v.)
  1. Even he could find nothing to cavil about.连他都挑不出什么毛病来。
  2. He cavilled at being asked to cook his own breakfast.他嗔怪让他自己做早饭。
【近义词】
学英语单词
acid-fast bacillus
acousticolateral area
Ad hoc polymorphism
Albano-
ass bags
authoritarian parenting style
avizandum
azoxynaphthalene
babagecidin tepesi
balance business systems (bbs)
batch carry-over
bearing lodgement
Belitzski's reducer
brinell hardness tester
broad band transistor
by installment payment
calling office
carbon sulfide sulphide
Carex orthostachys
cefodizime
centre by-pass
circumsolar
comi-tragedy
cunnanes
Cunobelinus
cut-off lake
differential U tube
Diiododithymol
dose titration
double wall steel cofferdam bored foundation
eating-thrown
empodium (pl. -dia)
express passing off
facies inferior linguae
fair water cap
frankliniella fuscas
genus ceratopogons
gru-gru
he is on the wing again
head-drums
hermetic seals
Holt-Harris-Teague's culture-medium
huanghuali
information completeness
intra-day limit
Lactosylsulfatide
lecoes
leftist,Leftist
lichenometry
Lotus alloy
magnussonite
maltese mechanism
marital rights
methyl arachidate
microgee
midsegments
minghella
monokaryotisation
mucosa-borne type
nanofiber
naphthalene halide
neurotoxins
nightclubby
nipple protector
no-slump concrete
nuclide generator
OLDI
ordinaria
overexaggerated
Pangasiidae
panipenem
phloionic acid
pipe him
public subsidies
quadruple-berthed cabin
receptum indebiti
remote-control channel
sales price size
self-filtration
sesquipedalianists
set associative buffer storage
silver bromides
slippery water
stern rake
subergorgia rubra
subluxation of cervical vertebra
sugar-beet harvester
sweepstakess
tangipahoa r.
telecruiser
Teuthide
Thycazol
tohungaism
torque friction
trick nto
tunnel windings
water joint
wear a belt and braces
weight basket
wilforgine
Winterboro
Younginiformes