女神殿

cavil



Y
1. 吹毛求疵
2. 無端指摘

D

–verb (used without object) 
1. to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually fol. by at or about): 

He finds something to cavil [at] in [everything] I say.  

–verb (used with object) 
2. to oppose by inconsequential, frivolous, or sham objections: 

to cavil each item of a proposed agenda.  

–noun 
3. a trivial and annoying objection. 
4. the raising of such objections.  

—Synonyms 
1. carp, complain, criticize.


　　
Some will quibble and cavil that the movie is too contrived: six books, six members, six sets of problems, six, six, six (and sex, of course). Contrivance is actually part of the appeal. One of the reasons we return to Austen, Dickens, Trollope and the estimable Mrs. Gaskell is that their novels are contrived. 


cavil (unnecessarily) 
quibble 
prevaricate (mislead)
equivocate (ambiguous to mislead)


frivolous 
sham

haggle bargain, mangle

finicky 
persnickety (snobbish) 
fastidious (painstaking) 

indict (of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against
recrimination countercharge
refute to prove to be erroneous, rebut & confute ...I refute the accusation that
castigate to reprimand severely, punish ...castigating him as a "narcissistic" part of the human anatomy