cavils

v.

挑剔，吹毛求疵( cavil的第三人称单数 )；

1. Even he could find nothing to cavil about.
   连他都挑不出什么毛病来。
2. He cavilled at being asked to cook his own breakfast.
   他嗔怪让他自己做早饭。

Improvement in cavils
"A Tale of a Tub"and the "Cavils of the Sour"
Ian Bradley cavils at the growing trend for teaching "world history"
Literary Quarrels and Cavils: A Theme of Renaissance Emblem Books
Five Cavils at Notes on 3,000 Unknown Inscriptions on Bones or Tortoise Shells(三千未释甲骨文集解)
A Defense of Our Antient and Modern Historians: Against the Frivolous Cavils of a Late Pretender to Critical History
A defence of the sincere and true translations of the Holy Scriptures in the English tongue, against the cavils of Gregory Martin
THE CAUSE OF GOD AND TRUTH. In four Parts WITH A VINDICATION OF PART IV. FROM THE CAVILS, CALUMNIES, AND DEFAMATIONS, OF MR. HENRY H...
Defence of the Sincere & True Translations of the Holy Scriptures into the English Tongue, Against the Cavils of Gregory Martin (Par...
A Sermon Preached Before the University of Oxford at St Mary's on Easter-Monday, 1719. In Which the Cavils, False Reasonings, and Fa...