captious 的定义
- 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.
captious 近义词
very critical
更多captious例句
- 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.