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Meanings of captious in inglês

Tending to find and call attention to faults.

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        Theological censure of a proposition wherein acceptable words are made to express objectionable thoughts.

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              Usage of captious in inglês
              1
              In time, the captious Mrs. Spofford began to resent this studied indifference.
              West Wind Drift
              2
              A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles.
              Letters to His Son, 1749 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ...
              3
              But everything we say is metaphorical if we choose to be captious.
              Essays on Life, Art and Science
              4
              A doctor sees so many women; he grows critical, if not captious.
              The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
              5
              My captious like and myself prefer the splendid originals in the books.
              The new yorker
              6
              Must he further puzzle over the insolent whims of a captious girl?
              Six Feet Four
              7
              Aunt Priscilla's captious talk did not always proceed from an unkindly heart.
              A Little Girl in Old Boston
              8
              Each had been captious, cross, or unruly, sorely trying the mother's patience.
              The Wedding Guest: A Friend of the Bride and Bridegroom
              9
              On that, too, we take a different, possible a captious position.
              The new yorker
              10
              Though it remained bad-tempered, captious, and unfriendly, it never went short of food.
              Charmed Life
              11
              She was captious and sullen in her manner to Mary and the Fräulein.
              Phantom Fortune, a Novel
              12
              Thus it happened that he came home in a captious mood.
              The Village by the River
              13
              The critic has the foul aroma of an insolent captious procurator.
              Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
              14
              He checked the impertinence, and silenced the vanity of captious cavillers.
              Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back ...
              15
              Nor need this be said in anything of a grumbling or captious spirit.
              The Recreations of a Country Parson
              16
              You are captious; but granted so, we must get them back.
              The Port of Missing Men
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