verb
- to surpass or exceed in caviling; to find more faults or raise more petty objections than someone else
Usage: archaic; literary; third person singular present tense of 'outcavil'
Examples
- He outcavils his rivals by pointing out every minor flaw in their arguments.
- The critic outcavils all others in finding fault with the performance.
- She outcavils her colleagues with endless objections to the proposal.