Caviling synonyms | phrases

Phrases with similar meaning for Caviling

• nit-picking
• hair-splitting
• soft-soap
• fault-finding
• bad press
• critical remarks
• rap on knuckles
• slap on wrist
• ill-humored
• out of humor
• hard to please
• out-of-sorts
• smooth-spoken
• rap knuckles
• slap wrist
• bad tempered
• double dealing
• critical remark
• sweet-talk
• bronx cheer
• ill-tempered
• quick-tempered
• find fault

  quibble
• bad-tempered
• ill-natured
• short-tempered
• out of sorts
• self-righteous
• double-dealing
• left-handed
• two-faced
• smooth-tongued
• fault finding
• hair splitting
• call-down
• verbal disapproval
• very critical
• cross-grained
• side-stepping
• terminological inexactitude
• begging of the question
• old-maidish