captious
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But when the two reconvene, there is no talk of favors or captious admonishments, only the authentic joy of seeing a friend’s familiar face after so long.
From Salon • Dec. 11, 2024
Still, readers shouldn’t be overly captious about this diverting, light entertainment.
From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2018
District Judge Renee Marie Bumb likened claims that Hartford's fund board allowed excessive fees to "armchair quarterbacking and captious nit-picking."
From Reuters • Dec. 27, 2016
She can be a captious and irritable mother-in-law to Ruth, and you feel the friction between the dominating women in Walter’s life.
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2014
Warren concluded with a scathing diagnosis of the Adams correspondence with her as a scattered series of verbal impulses and “the most captious, malignant, irrelevant compositions that have ever been seen.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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