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   captious

   /ˈkapʃəs/

   adjective

   • 1. tending to find fault or raise petty objections: formal "a captious teacher"

   Word Origin late Middle English (also in the sense ‘intended to deceive someone’): from Old French captieux or Latin captiosus, from captio(n-) ‘seizing’, (figuratively) ‘deceiving’ (see caption).

   Derivatives

   • 1. captiously adverb
   • 2. captiousness noun

   Scrabble Points: 12

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