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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.”

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

“I do not want to be captious, but desire the public to understand the facts,” Baker told The Washington Post.

“I wish you’d learn to put the caps back on things properly when you’re finished using them,” she said in a tone she fully meant to sound captious.

The president, she has written in an essay for LitHub, is “famously prone to captious bluster”, with the press only one of his targets.