verb
- to surpass or exceed in cavilling; to find more faults or raise more petty objections than someone else
Usage: archaic; literary; present participle or gerund form of 'outcavil'
Examples
- The two critics were outcavilling each other with increasingly trivial objections.
- He spent the evening outcavilling his colleague's every suggestion.
- Rather than outcavilling the proposal, they should focus on constructive feedback.
- The committee members were outcavilling over minor details instead of addressing the main issue.