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captious a. 吹毛求疵的,挑剔的 吹毛求疵的,挑剔的 captious adj 1: tending to find and call attention to faults; " a captious pedant"; " an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor" [ synonym: { captious}, { faultfinding}] Captious \ Cap" tious\, a. [ F. captieux, L. captiosus. See { Caption}.] 1. Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. [ 1913 Webster] A captious and suspicious age. -- Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster] I am sensible I have not disposed my materials to abide the test of a captious controversy. -- Bwike. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome. [ 1913 Webster] Captious restraints on navigation. -- Bancroft. Syn: Caviling, carping, fault- finding; censorious; hypercritical; peevish, fretful; perverse; troublesome. Usage: { Captious}, { caviling}, { Carping}. A captious person is one who has a fault- finding habit or manner, or is disposed to catch at faults, errors, etc., with quarrelsome intent; a caviling person is disposed to raise objections on frivolous grounds; carping implies that one is given to ill- natured, persistent, or unreasonable fault- finding, or picking up of the words or actions of others. [ 1913 Webster] Caviling is the carping of argument, carping the caviling of ill temper. -- C. J. Smith. [ 1913 Webster] 43 Moby Thesaurus words for " captious": bickering, carping, caviling, censorious, choplogic, contrary, critic, critical, cynical, demanding, equivocatory, evasive, exacting, faultfinding, finicky, hairsplitting, hedging, hypercritical, irritable, logic- chopping, nagging, niggling, nit- picking, overcritical, paltering, particular, peevish, pernickety, perverse, pettifogging, petty, petulant, picayune, pussyfooting, quibbling, shuffling, snappish, snappy, testy, trichoschistic, trifling, trivial, ultracritical
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