CAPTIOUS

captious, faultfinding

(adjective) tending to find and call attention to faults; “a captious pedant”; “an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

captious (comparative more captious, superlative most captious)

(obsolete) That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.

Synonyms: tricky, thorny, sophistical

Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky.

Synonyms: carping, critical, faultfinding, hypercritical, nitpicky

Anagrams

• autopsic

Source: Wiktionary

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Cap"tious, a. Etym: [F. captieux, L. captiosus. See Caption.]

1. Art to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. A captius and suspicious. Stillingfleet. I am sensible I have not disposed my materials to adbide the test of a captious controversy. Bwike.

2. Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome. Captious restraints on navigation. Bancroft.

Syn.

– Caviling, carping, fault-finding; censorious; hypercritical; peevish, fretful; perverse; troublesome.

– 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. Caviling is the carping of argument, carping the caviling of ill temper. C. J. Smith.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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