Significados de captious critic em inglês

Of this there is enough to satisfy the most captious critic.

A captious critic has remarked that probably the old lady fell into her washtub.

He had spoken bravely: the most captious critic could not but have admitted that he had made a good exit.

It would have taken a far more captious critic than the pretty widow to find fault with the large, high-ceilinged room in which she sat.

Without doubt, many traits are attributed to the Japanese by the casual observer or captious critic, through lack of ability to read between the lines.

Burton anticipates the objections of captious critics.

Captious critics, reasoning from the standpoint of another age, might think it needed combing, but that is only a matter of opinion.

Clayton was still abroad, and even his most captious critics would admit that Natalie should have a friend by if she were in trouble.

The busy and captious critics went away, but came back next day with the startling information that Raphael's pictures were more Pagan than Christian.