Captious

Adjective

 * 1) Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections.
 * 2)  Intended to capture or entrap.

Adverbs for Captious
disagreeably; offensively; irritatingly; needlessly; groundlessly; wilfully; unpleasantly; truculently; cantankerously; capriciously; whimsically; irresponsibly; provokingly; fitfully; contrarily; uncomfortably; excitably; petulantly; intolerably; unpardonably; irascibly; irritably; fretfully; inexplicably; fractiously; sarcastically; woefully.

Synonyms

 * faultfinding, nitpicky, carping, critical, hypercritical
 * tricky, thorny; sophistical

Derived terms

 * captiously
 * captiousness

Related terms

 * caption
 * capture

Thesaurus
nit-picking, overcritical, paltering, particular, peevish, pernickety, perverse, pettifogging, petty, petulant, picayune, pussyfooting, quibbling, shuffling, snappish, snappy, testy, trichoschistic, trifling, trivial, ultracritical, bickering, carping, caviling, censorious, choplogic, contrary, critic, critical, cynical, demanding, equivocatory, evasive, exacting, faultfinding, finicky, hairsplitting, hedging, hypercritical, irritable, logic-chopping, nagging, niggling,

Etymology
From capcious:, from  captiosus:, possibly via  captieux:

Translations

 * Bulgarian: придирчив, заядлив, критичен

Anagrams

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