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captious
adjective
(cap-tious)
tending to find and call attention to faults
Synonyms:
faultfinding
,
Examples:
A captious pedant.
Words Related to
captious
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faultfinding
,
critical
,
overcritical
,
disdainful
,
reproachful
,
pernickety
,
pedantic
,
haughty
,
egoistical
,
purblind
,
brusk
,
rebarbative
,
graceless
,
delusory
,
mealymouthed
,
schoolmarmish
,
disrespectable
,
thickheaded
,
onanistic
,
fuddy
,
substanceless
,
ineloquent
,
cloddish
,
jejune
,
unintellectual
,
fatuous
,
mulish
,
supercilious
,
dunderheaded
,
softheaded
,
unheeding
,
unacademic
,
unthinking
,
megalomanic
,
cretinous
,
obsequious
,
simpleminded
,
overemotional
,
otiose
,
recriminatory
,
accusative
,
solipsistic
,
unpoetic
,
inefficacious
,
contemptuous
,
sheeplike
,
philistine
,
unchivalrous
,
blither
,
machiavellian
,
jesuitical
,
unmannerly
,
pharisaical
,
muddleheaded
,
untempered
,
witless
,
sententious
,
sanctimonious
,
moronic
,
unquotable
,
meanspirited
,
unentertaining
,
sesquipedalian
,
puerile
,
chauvinistic
,
cultureless
,
unreasoned
,
clubbish
,
schoolmasterly
,
unrepressed
,
humorless
,
womanish
,
goony
,
unreflective
,
unaffecting
,
vapid
,
delusive
,
blinkered
,
inharmonious
,
unstatesmanlike
,
incommunicative
,
obtuse
,
delphic
,
unmodern
,
phantasmal
,
unworthy
,
sophistic
,
deracinated
,
hypermasculine
,
overdetermined
,
vacuous
,
antipathetic
,
feckless
,
unappreciative
,
pinheaded
,
dostoevskian
,
fuddled
,
addlepated
,
bromidic
,
unaccommodating
,
captious
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