verb
- to surpass or exceed in caviling; to find more faults or raise more petty objections than someone else
Usage: archaic; literary; transitive or intransitive
Examples
- He tried to outcavil his opponent in the debate by raising increasingly trivial objections.
- The critic was known to outcavil every other reviewer in the publication.
- She would not be outcaviled in her scrutiny of the manuscript's minor flaws.