Relating to or characterized by caviling; prone to making petty objections or complaints.
Formed from Latin 'cavillator' (a mocker) with the English adjective suffix '-y,' creating an adjective meaning 'of or relating to caviling.' This is a more formal or literary term.
Cavillatory is barely used today—it's one of those wonderful dead adjectives that English creates but then abandons for simpler words like 'nitpicky' or 'critical'!
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