captious
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(of a person) Tending to find fault or raise petty objections,
/ˈkapSHəs/,
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(of a person) Tending to find fault or raise petty objections,
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(of a person) Tending to find fault or raise petty objections
Web Definitions:
- tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"
- (captiously) in a captious, carping manner; "he was captiously pedantic"
- That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical; Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky
- apt to raise objections to trivial faults or defects; given to fault-finding; difficult to please.
- ¹,² – 1. fault-finding; quarrelsome eagerness to object 2. calculated to entrap through subtle argument
- (adj) inclined to find fault