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Significados de captious em 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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Examples for "faultfinding"
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Gordon broke in irritably: My dear Gloria, spare me this painful faultfinding.
The Iron Trail
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Indiscriminating irony and faultfinding are just sumphishness, and that is all.
The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2
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Not faultfinding, but a somewhat irritating concern for his comfort was in the complaint.
Different Girls
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She was like the Fidel Castro of complainers-shespouted a never-endingstream of faultfinding.
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow ...
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And to judge by the everlasting faultfinding, nobody is ever satisfied by what is accomplished.
All-Wool Morrison / Time -- Today, Place -- the United States, P...
Uso de captious em inglês
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In time, the captious Mrs. Spofford began to resent this studied indifference.
West Wind Drift
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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 ...
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But everything we say is metaphorical if we choose to be captious.
Essays on Life, Art and Science
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A doctor sees so many women; he grows critical, if not captious.
The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
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My captious like and myself prefer the splendid originals in the books.
The new yorker
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Must he further puzzle over the insolent whims of a captious girl?
Six Feet Four
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Aunt Priscilla's captious talk did not always proceed from an unkindly heart.
A Little Girl in Old Boston
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Each had been captious, cross, or unruly, sorely trying the mother's patience.
The Wedding Guest: A Friend of the Bride and Bridegroom
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On that, too, we take a different, possible a captious position.
The new yorker
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Though it remained bad-tempered, captious, and unfriendly, it never went short of food.
Charmed Life
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She was captious and sullen in her manner to Mary and the Fräulein.
Phantom Fortune, a Novel
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Thus it happened that he came home in a captious mood.
The Village by the River
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The critic has the foul aroma of an insolent captious procurator.
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
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He checked the impertinence, and silenced the vanity of captious cavillers.
Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back ...
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Nor need this be said in anything of a grumbling or captious spirit.
The Recreations of a Country Parson
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You are captious; but granted so, we must get them back.
The Port of Missing Men
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