Word: cavil
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...steeplechase course. As the field of 43 thundered over the first hazardous jumps, the long-legged Lord let three outsiders steal a long lead on the favorite. He seemed to be concentrating on getting safely, rather than quickly, over the jumps. It was hard to cavil at this: 32 of the 43 horses failed to finish; Cromwell stayed on his feet...
English are, with cavil, the nicest enemies the Jews ever have...
...profess annoyance at our temerity; we condemn your imbecility. You are smug in your complacency; we are abashed by your shamelessness. . . . To cavil further is futile. We trust that time, as it shrinks your purse, may modify your niggardly and anti-social propensities...
...nominally autonomous, and imposed an astonishing degree of order upon a people to whom disorder has been the immemorial rule of life. Now, at 65, he is justly called Servant of the Almighty, strong as a lion, subtle as the Koran, straight as a scepter. He is, beyond cavil, the greatest of living Arab rulers...
While Churchill was speaking, the heads of the Lublin Government were conferring in Moscow. It was expected that by next week they would be recognized as Poland's provisional government. Though political purists might cavil at the word "independent," Marshal Stalin had spoken only the literal truth to Prime Minister Churchill at Teheran, since the Lublin Government was Russian-controlled...