Caviling

a.

1.

Disposed to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See Captious. His depreciatory and caviling criticism. - Lewis.

Adj.

1.

caviling - quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics" Synonyms: carping, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibbling

captious, carping, censorious, contrary, critic, demanding, exacting, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, hypercritical, mean, niggling, nitpicking, overcritical, perverse, petty, picky, small