Sentence example with the word 'captious'

captious

bickering, choplogic, cynical, exacting, hedging, nagging, paltering, perverse, picayune, snappish, trifling

Definition adj. tending to find and call attention to faults

Last update: February 26, 2016


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My captious father is never satisfied with anything I do.   [adjective]

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Never had the captious little girl been more docile, more obedient.   [Please select]

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None of the servers wanted to wait on the captious woman who complained about everything.   [adjective]

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Georgiana, who had a spoiled temper, a very acrid spite, a captious and insolent carriage, was universally indulged.   [adjective]

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She gets too captious, while reading any sad novel.   [Please select]

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The most captious young chit, such as Dolly herself, could scarcely have called him either corpulent or old.   [adjective]

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He grew by degrees less civil, put on more of the master, frequently found fault, was captious, and seem'd ready for an outbreaking.   [adjective]

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=DESSERT= The captious say "dessert means the fruit and candy which come after the ices."   [Please select]

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