caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used without object) : He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : to cavil each item of a proposed agenda.    From Dictionary.com. 

Fine, there need be no caviling about the kind of a human being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Changeling]

Quibble: 1: to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fraud?] Reference

Their improvement has been so astonishing as to silence doubt and caviling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 05, May, 1889] Reference

But there are those caviling lawyer types who demand fact-checks on everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Clark: John McCain And Larry Sinclair: Twin Heroes] Reference

We can stop, therefore, neither in perpetual adoration of nor perpetual caviling at the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

That support feeds even more spending from caviling politicians looking for popular measures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alan Schram: Income Inequality: Can We Tax Our Way Out of Trouble?] Reference

He was caviling about a few thousand more dollars when millions — millions — were involved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardcase]

Then suddenly, like a thunder clap, the carping, caviling, and outright condemnation of The People ceased abruptly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rick Shenkman: We're All Populists Now; That's Unfortunate] Reference

Anticipating the usual caviling, he added that the new war is in no way a distraction from the ongoing War on Terror.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbara Ehrenreich: The War on Infrastructure] Reference

Without the least contention or caviling, it may very properly be made a question of doubt, whether this doctrine agrees with the Belgic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1] Reference

Venice with full credentials to effect the ratification, but gave them secret orders not to do so, and with pretexts or caviling to put it off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Florence] Reference

But most of Columbia's big-shot public intellectuals didn't seem to mind a little caviling-or else were too busy hanging out with their ideas to threaten us with a lawsuit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columbia Kvetching] Reference

Nothing is said so simply that it cannot be distorted by caviling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apology of the Augsburg Confession] Reference

Away with all epistemological caviling which would deny such realities!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

These are palpable facts, about which, as facts, there can be no caviling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865] Reference

Herein Shelley is far removed from the caviling temper of his fellow rebel Byron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived] Reference

Holofernes, as he would in crossing swords with a recruit or caviling with a land-lady.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicomte De Bragelonne] Reference

Those of you with an advanced degree in the arboreal sciences are caviling over the idea of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Long Beach Press Telegram Most Viewed] Reference

I will have no one caviling at me, for instance, because I do not know when Washington was born.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers] Reference

After caviling at the treaty, he goes on to characterize the several parties combined in the war.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America, in Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up] Reference

He had been twice wounded in his country's service, and he was rewarded by jealousy, caviling, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States] Reference

And while I'm not caviling, you will pardon me, son, if I suggest that hereafter you play square with me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blacksheep! Blacksheep!] Reference

It is simplicity and not worldly arrogance, obedience and not caviling; first as a daughter, then as a wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl in Old Detroit] Reference

Step by step, as she advanced, she has proved her right, to the satisfaction of caviling skepticism itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference

About his faults he will say more when he brings out some other new ones, unless he puts an end to his caviling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes] Reference

And at no time hath the caviling of men, whether learned or unlearned, been a thing to rely on, nor will it be so.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Traveler’s Narrative] Reference

It is our good fortune to know such a man; but it is difficult to present him to a scientific and caviling generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

They began to lay the foundation for caviling at the legality of that body, if its measures should be hostile to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2] Reference

After caviling over the power of the Conference to pardon and restore, a vote was taken and the defendant was restored.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography and work of Bishop M.F. Jamison, D.D. ("Uncle Joe") : editor, publisher, and Church Extension Secretary : a narration of his whole career from the cradle to the Bishopric of the Colored M. E. Church in America,] Reference

There was some caviling, and the commissioners resigned; but the Legislature and the new commissioners took no step backwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913] Reference

You are a captious, caviling, carping, crabbed, contentious, cantankerous chap. Hoot mon! an 'why shouldna I drap into Scotch gin I choose?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dear Enemy] Reference

Has a nice roundup of the weekend's caviling from a quartet of well-heeled liberal columnists for New York-based publications.    From Wordnik.com.  [TV Barn] Reference

"Cease this miserable caviling which you and Joseph are at work on night and day -- ridiculous for him, and still less appropriate for you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference

Such caviling was a problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turbulence in the Gene Pool | Impact Lab] Reference

But enough caviling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

This article is caviling at best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

Enough caviling.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

A scientific and caviling generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wilderness] Reference