captious
1 of 1adjective/ˈkæpʃəs/
Forms:more captious,most captious
1
tending to raise petty objections
- The critic was captious, nitpicking every sentence.
- She had a captious attitude toward minor mistakes.
- His captious remarks annoyed everyone in the meeting.
- The teacher was unnecessarily captious about punctuation.
- Captious comments from the audience disrupted the speaker.
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