not to be caviled at

I hear the caviling voices

a quotidian cavilling against the wipe-clean sheen of the wall

My two donkeys were already loaded to the point of being in danger of tipping over. This is pure cavil.

Are we going to cavil at John Ford or Sam Peckinpah for hiring and rehiring their buddies—their collaborative family—over the years?

I knew it was an extremely petty cavil that Kitsey never seemed very moved by anything.

Always more disposed to cavil in proportion as he detected a genuine eagerness on the mayor's part, and otherwise full of suspicion and awe