verb
- surpassed or exceeded in cavilling; made more petty objections or quibbles than someone else
Usage: archaic; literary; past tense of outcavil
Examples
- He outcavilled his opponent in the debate by raising even more trivial objections.
- The critic outcavilled all previous reviewers with her endless nitpicking.
- She outcavilled her colleagues by finding fault with every minor detail of the proposal.