CAPTIOUS
(adj.) tending to find and call attention to faults
"a captious pedant", "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"
synonyms : faultfindingThe 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.
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(Tag: ) simiar to CAUTIOUS...cautious people FIND FAULTS in things
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(Tag: ) CAPTION--ppl who supervise and copyright the CAPTIONs of good TV Ads ae particularly perfectionist and fault finding
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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.
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(Tag: captious) CAPTIOUS- ALWAYS GIVIN CAPTIONS..ALWAYS LABELING..
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(Tag: ) Captions...when you give too many CAPTIONS(comments) on you friend's photos, you try to find faults
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(Tag: ) we generally give captions or names to people if we find fault with them..like Mr. stupidity etc.,
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(Tag: ) Imagine a ships CAPTAIN yelling, "Swab the decks ye scurvy scum!"
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(Tag: ) Captured by her attack on my character, I was trapped in an argument with her.
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(Tag: global english) if ur CAUTIOUS U will not do faults.
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