Word Meanings - CAVILINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a caviling manner.

Related words: (words related to CAVILINGLY)

• CAVIL; CAVILER; CAVILLER
  One who cavils. Cavilers at the style of the Scriptures. Boyle.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• CAVILOUS; CAVILLOUS
  Characterized by caviling, or disposed to cavil; quibbing. -- Cav"il*ous*ly, adv. -- Cav"il*ous*ness, n.
• CAVILLATION
  Frivolous or sophistical objection. Hooker.
• CAVIL
  To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason. You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract. Shak.
• CAVILING
  Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See Captious. His depreciatory and caviling criticism. Lewis.
• CAVILINGLY
  In a caviling manner.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.