captious

Adjective Satellite

• tending to find and call attention to faults
  • "a captious pedant"

Adj

• That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.
• Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky.

Adjective

• Tending to find fault or raise petty objections; critical.

Examples

• His opponent was captious, always pointing out minor rule infringements during their game.

Synonyms

faultfinding, carping, critical, hypercritical, nitpicky, sophistical, thorny, tricky

Related Words

caption, capture

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