captious
11captious — adjective Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections. But Peter Petrovich did not accept this retort. On the contrary, he became all the more captious and irritable, as though he were just hitting his stride. Syn …
12captious — cap•tious [[t]ˈkæp ʃəs[/t]] adj. 1) apt to focus on trivial faults or defects; faultfinding 2) proceeding from a faultfinding disposition 3) apt or designed to ensnare or perplex: captious questions[/ex] • Etymology: 1350–1400; ME capcious < L …
13captious — Synonyms and related words: bickering, carping, caviling, censorious, choplogic, contrary, critic, critical, cynical, demanding, equivocatory, evasive, exacting, faultfinding, finicky, hairsplitting, hedging, hypercritical, irritable, logic… …
14captious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. caviling, carping, hairsplitting, faultfinding, hypercritical. See disapprobation. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Critical] Syn. faultfinding, carping, caviling; see critical 2 , sarcastic , severe 1 .… …
15captious — cap|tious [ kæpʃəs ] adjective VERY FORMAL tending to complain about things that are not important …
16captious — cap·tious || kæpʃəs adj. narrow minded, fault finding, picky …
17captious — [ kapʃəs] adjective formal tending to find fault or raise petty objections. Derivatives captiously adverb captiousness noun Origin ME: from OFr. captieux or L. captiosus, from captio(n ) (see caption) …
18captious — a. 1. Censorious, cavilling, carping, hypercritical, disposed to cavil, given to fault finding. 2. Crabbed, snappish, testy, touchy, waspish, splenetic, cross, snarling, acrimonious, cantankerous (colloq.), contentious. 3. Ensnaring, insidious …
19captious — adjective literary always criticizing unimportant things …
20captious — adj 1. faultfinding, carping, nagging, caviling; scoffing, impugning, picking, Inf. picky; hard to please, hypercritical, critical, biting, cutting, belittling, deprecating; chiding, reproachful, censorious, disapprobatory, disapproving,… …
