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captious

adjective

1 captious

Tending to find and call attention to faults:
— A captious pedant.

synonym: faultfinding.

Roget 901: irascible; bad-tempered, ill-tempered; irritable, susceptible; excitable etc. 825; thin-skinned etc. (sensitive) 822; fretful, ... show more

Roget 932: disapproving etc. v.; scandalized.    disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory, clamorous, vituperative; defamatory ... show more

Roget 608: capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims etc. n.; maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: bickering, carping, caviling, censorious, choplogic, contrary, critic, critical, cynical, demanding, equivocatory, evasive, exacting, faultfinding, finicky, hairsplitting, hedging, hypercritical, irritable, logic-chopping ... show more.

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