captious
Example Sentences
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The president, she has written in an essay for LitHub, is “famously prone to captious bluster”, with the press only one of his targets.
From The Guardian
Still, readers shouldn’t be overly captious about this diverting, light entertainment.
From Washington Post
From Tennessee to Birmingham, their captious free-for-all Suggests that I am riding on the Squabash Cannonball.
From Washington Post
Here, a captious reviewer might take issue and point to Dorothy Richardson’s “Pilgrimage” and Marguerite Young’s “Miss Macintosh, My Darling.”
From Washington Post
The captious, however, might complain that Levi’s autobiographical writings are somewhat repetitive, his essays a bit dry and his fantasy fiction rather labored.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
