Persistent petty and unjustified criticism.
Tending to find and call attention to faults.
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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.
1 Gordon broke in irritably: My dear Gloria, spare me this painful faultfinding .
2 Indiscriminating irony and faultfinding are just sumphishness, and that is all.
3 Not faultfinding , but a somewhat irritating concern for his comfort was in the complaint.
4 She was like the Fidel Castro of complainers-shespouted a never-endingstream of faultfinding .
5 And to judge by the everlasting faultfinding , nobody is ever satisfied by what is accomplished.
6 The word "censorious," meaning faultfinding , is derived from the name of these ancient officials.
7 God, forgive my negative, critical, faultfinding ways.
8 He is suspicious and faultfinding by nature.
9 The slipshod informality of the meal, the constant faultfinding of the hostess, made it something of a trial.
10 Indeed-thoughI say it not in the way of faultfinding at all-neverwas there so labyrinthine an abode.
11 It's your critical, negative, faultfinding attitude.
12 Mrs. Ericson was harsh and faultfinding , constantly wounding the boy's pride; and Olaf was always setting her against him.
13 On no subject are the Bahá'í teaching more imperative and uncompromising than on the requirement to abstain from faultfinding .
14 Over and over, he stressed that it was all the faultfinding SmurFFs that were coming in that were the problem.
15 To any who had formed the idea that Mark Twain was irascible, exacting, and faultfinding , they will perhaps be a revelation.
16 Jupiter, indignant at such inveterate faultfinding , drove him from his office of judge, and expelled him from the mansions of Olympus.
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