What is another word for caviller?

Pronunciation: [kˈavɪlə] (IPA)

What are the hypernyms for Caviller?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Caviller

But my uncle, whose religion had been sadly undermined at court, was a terrible caviller at the holy mysteries of Catholicism; and while his friends termed him a Protestant, his enemies hinted, falsely enough, that he was a sceptic.
"Devereux, Book I."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The philosophic pessimist is not a fretful and malignant caviller who sneers at the follies of others because he thinks himself so much wiser than they.
"Wagner's Tristan und Isolde"
George Ainslie Hight
I will not listen to any trifler, caviller, who is merely trying to make a point and to get ahead of the poor arguments that I can use; but let any fellow-man come to me with an earnest face, either of puzzled doubt, or of earnest and convinced unbelief, and say to me, "Are you not wrong?"
"Addresses"
Phillips Brooks

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