About The Word Captious
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Captious
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What's The Definition Of Captious?
[adj] tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Captious: critical | faultfinding Related Terms | Find terms related to Captious: bickering | carping | caviling | censorious | choplogic | contrary | critic | critical | cynical | demanding | equivocatory | evasive | exacting | faultfinding | finicky | hairsplitting | hedging | hypercritical | irritable | logic-chopping | nagging | niggling | nit-picking | overcritical | paltering | particular | peevish | pernickety | perverse | pettifogging | petty | petulant | picayune | pussyfooting | quibbling | shuffling | snappish | snappy | testy | trichoschistic | trifling | trivial | ultracritical See Also | Captious In Webster's Dictionary \Cap"tious\, a. [F. captieux, L. captiosus. See
{Caption}.]
1. Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to
cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.
A captious and suspicious age. --Stillingfleet.
I am sensible I have not disposed my materials to
abide the test of a captious controversy. --Bwike.
2. Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious;
troublesome.
Captious restraints on navigation. --Bancroft.
Syn: Caviling, carping, fault-finding; censorious;
hypercritical; peevish, fretful; perverse; troublesome.
Usage: {Captious}, {caviling}, {Carping}. A captious person
is one who has a fault-finding habit or manner, or is
disposed to catch at faults, errors, etc., with
quarrelsome intent; a caviling person is disposed to
raise objections on frivolous grounds; carping implies
that one is given to ill-natured, persistent, or
unreasonable fault-finding, or picking up of the words
or actions of others.
Caviling is the carping of argument, carping the
caviling of ill temper. --C. J. Smith.
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