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| | captious | (แคพ'ชัส) adj. หาเรื่อง, จับผิด, คอยจับผิด, แคะได้, หาเรื่อง, ขี้บ่น, See also: captiousness n. ดู captious, Syn. critical |
| | captious | (adj) จู้จี้, ขี้บ่น, ชอบหาเรื่อง, คอยจับผิด |
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| | Captious | a. [ F. captieux, L. captiosus. See Caption. ] 1. Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. [ 1913 Webster ] A captious and suspicious age. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ] I am sensible I have not disposed my materials to abide the test of a captious controversy. Bwike. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome. [ 1913 Webster ] Captious restraints on navigation. Bancroft. Syn. -- Caviling, carping, fault-finding; censorious; hypercritical; peevish, fretful; perverse; troublesome. -- Captious, caviling, Carping. A captious person is one who has a fault-finding habit or manner, or is disposed to catch at faults, errors, etc., with quarrelsome intent; a caviling person is disposed to raise objections on frivolous grounds; carping implies that one is given to ill-natured, persistent, or unreasonable fault-finding, or picking up of the words or actions of others. [ 1913 Webster ] Caviling is the carping of argument, carping the caviling of ill temper. C. J. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Captiously | adv. In a captious manner. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Captiousness | n. Captious disposition or manner. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Captious \Cap"tious\, a. [F. captieux, L. captiosus. See
{Caption}.]
1. Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to
cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.
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A captious and suspicious age. --Stillingfleet.
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I am sensible I have not disposed my materials to
abide the test of a captious controversy. --Bwike.
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2. Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious;
troublesome.
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Captious restraints on navigation. --Bancroft.
Syn: Caviling, carping, fault-finding; censorious;
hypercritical; peevish, fretful; perverse; troublesome.
Usage: {Captious}, {caviling}, {Carping}. A captious person
is one who has a fault-finding habit or manner, or is
disposed to catch at faults, errors, etc., with
quarrelsome intent; a caviling person is disposed to
raise objections on frivolous grounds; carping implies
that one is given to ill-natured, persistent, or
unreasonable fault-finding, or picking up of the words
or actions of others.
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Caviling is the carping of argument, carping the
caviling of ill temper. --C. J. Smith.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
captious
adj 1: tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious
pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding
tutor" [syn: {captious}, {faultfinding}]
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