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Captiously

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Adverb

1. captiously

in a captious, carping manner

Example Sentences:
'he was captiously pedantic'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Captiously

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adjective
apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping

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Captiously

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adjective
1. 
made only for the sake of argument or faultfinding
captious criticism
2. 
fond of catching others in mistakes; quick to find fault; quibbling; carping

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Captiously

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adj.
1. Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults: a captious scholar.
2. Intended to entrap or confuse, as in an argument: a captious question.

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