Her mother was particularly captious about the way the bed was made. From LearnThat.org.
A captious pedant. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : He could never praise without adding a captious remark. ,captious questions. From Dictionary.com.
'Well, my lord, I don't think I could be called captious for saying that the world has not gone over well with me.'. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Kilgobbin] Reference
Our position is not unbending; it is not captious. From Wordnik.com. [The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox] Reference
Let us not be captious, but agreeably appreciative. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Thus it happened that he came home in a captious mood. From Wordnik.com. [The Village by the River] Reference
Burton anticipates the objections of captious critics. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
He had not been captious as to the form of the platform. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Of this there is enough to satisfy the most captious critic. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884] Reference
They are captious, fond of litigation, and constantly seeking subterfuges. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
But so much praise he has fairly wrested from even the most captious reviewer. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
It is beyond doubt, that the question was captious, and that the design of the. From Wordnik.com. [Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive] Reference
As a companion, he was severe and satirical; as a friend, captious and dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference
As a companion he was severe and satirical; as a friend captious and dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference
The morning after the foregoing occurrence found Mabel very dull, and very captious. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Mary] Reference
I have been quoted as saying captious things about travel; but I mean to do justice. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
The tall girl listened gravely to this enthusiastic tribute to her captious roommate. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College] Reference
You know it is a long time since I have pretended to answer half your captious questions. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
The captious may say that our platform reference to reservations is vague and indefinite. From Wordnik.com. [The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox] Reference
I was captious enough to object even to this; and I then received a Leipzig title in German. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850] Reference
We took it up, like our neighbors, and, as was natural, in a somewhat captious frame of mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference
Mrs. Hubbard's precarious state of health had led her into being unusually captious, it seemed. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Promise] Reference
With him she was cold and abrupt, and captious, eyes half-lidded and cheeks white and mask-like. From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
"Will banish him!" exclaimed the countess mirthfully, regarding the captious monarch with mock defiance. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
He gave a résumé of all the sins of the North as a belligerent and wrote in a distinctly captious spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference
Full of other business, they could not give a thought to what they looked upon merely as captious criticism. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
Surely a tolerable proximate approach to possible existence ought to satisfy a not viciously captious critic. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Moreover, he found Freda captious and cross, and particularly annoyed at his and her father's visit to Pentre. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
Whatever the captious may call it, the thing has become an organization measure, and as such a test of loyalty. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
We would remark in passing that De Quincey is altogether too captious in his criticisms upon French ideas of war. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
It will not, we hope, therefore, be understood as in a captious spirit, that we take exception to certain details. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy] Reference
Dutch worthies, and because I understand that now and then one may still be found to regard it with a captious eye. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
He was industrious, restless, captious, and, although humane at heart, was the most malignant slanderer of his time. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
The Pharisees, always captious and controversial, sought to entangle the Savior in a discussion on the subject of divorce. From Wordnik.com. [The Testimony of the Bible Concerning the Assumptions of Destructive Criticism] Reference
They are so plainly just and reasonable that the most captious servant cannot take exception to them as a matter of principle. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
They are remarkably free from the vice he charges them withal -- and have been admitted to be so by the most captious critics. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
And he wasn't sure about how a Marx Brothers movie could resolve existential anxiety so fully, but seemed too captious to mention. From Wordnik.com. [The Guerilla Drive-In] Reference
It was a treat to hear him poking fun at the bores, demolishing the captious and humouring the serious critics of his administration. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917] Reference
A disappointed prophet is a captious critic and, the story turning out quite otherwise, I was very much on the alert for latent faults. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914] Reference
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