Tending to find and call attention to faults.
Theological censure of a proposition wherein acceptable words are made to express objectionable thoughts.
1 In time, the captious Mrs. Spofford began to resent this studied indifference.
2 A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles.
3 But everything we say is metaphorical if we choose to be captious .
4 A doctor sees so many women; he grows critical, if not captious .
5 My captious like and myself prefer the splendid originals in the books.
6 Must he further puzzle over the insolent whims of a captious girl?
7 Aunt Priscilla's captious talk did not always proceed from an unkindly heart.
8 Each had been captious , cross, or unruly, sorely trying the mother's patience.
9 On that, too, we take a different, possible a captious position.
10 Though it remained bad-tempered, captious , and unfriendly, it never went short of food.
11 She was captious and sullen in her manner to Mary and the Fräulein.
12 Thus it happened that he came home in a captious mood.
13 The critic has the foul aroma of an insolent captious procurator.
14 He checked the impertinence, and silenced the vanity of captious cavillers.
15 Nor need this be said in anything of a grumbling or captious spirit.
16 You are captious ; but granted so, we must get them back.
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