captious

Synonyymisanakirja

captious

kriittinen, kritisoiva, arvosteleva, saivarteleva, pikkumainen.

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Englannin sanakirja

captious (englanti > suomi)

1. harhaanjohtava

2. pikkumainen

captious englanniksi

1. puhekieltä That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.

2. 1605, (w), s:Alls Well that Ends Well|All's Well that Ends Well'':

I know I loue in vaine, striue against hope: / Yet in this captious, and intemible Siue / I still poure in the waters of my loue / And lacke not to loose still.

3. 1784, (w), "A Review of Schools", in Poems, 1859 ed., http://books.google.com/books?id=bcoIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA219 page 219:

A captious question, sir, and yours is one, / Deserves an answer similar, or none.

4. (quote-book)|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=P98V-3-qzp0C&pg=PA558|page=558|edition=2000 Oxford ed.|isbn=0198187459|title=Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

5. Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky

6. 1968, Sidney Monas, translating Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866):

But Peter Petrovich did not accept this retort. On the contrary, he became all the more captious and irritable, as though he were just hitting his stride.

7. 2009, Anne Karpf, The Guardian, 24 Jan 2009:

The "Our Bold" column, nitpicking at errors in other periodicals, can look merely captious, and its critics often seem to be wildly and collectively wrong-headed.

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