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captious - Dictionary definition and meaning for captious

CAPTIOUS

  • (adj.) tending to find and call attention to faults

    "a captious pedant", "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"

    synonyms : faultfinding

    The tutor was so captious that the students found it extremely difficult to continue there. -added by Aswathy_inlas

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Mnemonics for captious

  • (Tag: ) First word that comes to mind -Captain, who will always find and call attention to Faults which must be altered.

    added by sriharisharma    editEdit Mnemonic

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  • (Tag: ) simiar to CAUTIOUS...cautious people FIND FAULTS in things

    added by findktk    editEdit Mnemonic

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  • (Tag: ) CAPTION--ppl who supervise and copyright the CAPTIONs of good TV Ads ae particularly perfectionist and fault finding

    added by soumen    editEdit Mnemonic

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  • (Tag: ) CAPTION+ous so caption is one which is catchy. so a captious person always tries to pick faults in others,FAULTFINDING.

    added by daringdavin    editEdit Mnemonic

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  • (Tag: captious) CAPTIOUS- ALWAYS GIVIN CAPTIONS..ALWAYS LABELING..

    added by madness    editEdit Mnemonic

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  • (Tag: ) Captions...when you give too many CAPTIONS(comments) on you friend's photos, you try to find faults

    added by nileshdive    editEdit Mnemonic

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  • (Tag: ) we generally give captions or names to people if we find fault with them..like Mr. stupidity etc.,

    added by sai dasika    editEdit Mnemonic

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  • (Tag: ) Imagine a ships CAPTAIN yelling, "Swab the decks ye scurvy scum!"

    added by dshefman    editEdit Mnemonic

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  • (Tag: ) Captured by her attack on my character, I was trapped in an argument with her.

    added by Marise    editEdit Mnemonic

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  • (Tag: global english) if ur CAUTIOUS U will not do faults.

    added by gdabli    editEdit Mnemonic

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