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captious

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The human sweetness in him was half dried up, and a misanthropy, so new and alien to him, made him querulous and captious.

But the real Hynde Horn in the dear old ballad had a truelove who was not captious and capricious and cold like Francesca.

"There, you hear that," said Lawless, who had just drunk enough to render him captious and obstinate.

The Pharisees, always captious and controversial, sought to entangle the Savior in a discussion on the subject of divorce.

A captious eye might have marked it as somewhat lacking—somewhat too round and ready, like the ripple on a pan of water.

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On this page you'll find 77 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to captious, such as: acrimonious, cantankerous, carping, caviling, cavillous, and censorious.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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