noun. The act of raising captious and frivolous objections; an objection of a captious nature: as, “cavillings and menacings,”

Raising frivolous objections; fault-finding.

adjective. Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See captious.

verb. Present participle of cavil.

noun. cavilation

"And indeed, if young voters keep caviling about the government they abhor without taking part in political process to help reshape it (after all we are a country of over three hundred million individuals, change will not come as fast or grand as they would prefer), then yes, we may have trains running on time soon, and little else."

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