Captious describes someone inclined to find fault, especially with trivial matters.
Captious describes someone inclined to find fault, especially with trivial matters.
| Front | captious \KAP-shuhs\ |
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| Back | adjective Inclined to find faults, especially of a trivial nature. [Via French from Latin capere (to seize). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kap- (to grasp), which is also the root of captive, capsule, capable, capture, cable, chassis, occupy, and deceive. Earliest documented use: 1380.] "Simon Cowell, the breathtakingly captious judge on American Idol, has dashed more dreams than an alarm clock." - David Hiltbrand; 'Idol' Hands are This Devil's Workshop, As He Rakes Teen Dreams Over the Coals; The San Diego Union-Tribune; Aug 4, 2002. |
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