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captious

/kap-shuhs/US // ˈkæp ʃəs //UK // (ˈkæpʃəs) //

迷人的,掳掠,任性,束手就擒

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : apt to notice and make much of trivial faults or defects; faultfinding; difficult to please.
    • : proceeding from a faultfinding or caviling disposition: He could never praise without adding a captious remark.
    • : apt or designed to ensnare or perplex, especially in argument: captious questions.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.very critical

Examples

  • 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.