Both Uses of
cavil
in
Franny and Zooey
- It sounded to her cavilling and bitchy, and she felt a wave of self-hatred that, quite literally, made her forehead begin to perspire again.†
Chpt 1.2
- I actually reached a point where I said to myself, right out loud, like a lunatic, If I hear just one more picky, cavilling, unconstructive word out of you, Franny Glass, you and I are finished—but finished.†
Chpt 2.3 *
Definition:
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(cavil) an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections; or to raise trivial objections