captious
About 0.10 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.
- adjective Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky.
Similar words
critical faultfinding catchy sophisticative insidious contraptious cautelous tettish snary illecebrous
Often followed by
and critic criticism critics or spirit questions to in
Word family
captiously captiousness captiousnesses
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