Cavil

Cavil: To cavil is to quibble. It shares its etymology with calumny.

It would be too easy to cavil at the ignorance of point 7 (research into sex differences have been going on for 50 years).

A Book for Today: The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer

If the beauty be there in the picture, why cavil at the method by which it was obtained?

A Book for Today: The Crimes of Paris by Dorothy Hoobler