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Definition of Captiously

Captiously
Captiously Cap"tious*ly, adv. In a captious manner.

Meaning of Captiously from wikipedia

- appeared the (East) 'Atlantic Archipelago' will have any appeal beyond captious scholars. "Guardian Style Guide", The Guardian, London, 19 December 2008...
- ; mora "delay, any duration of time" ⇒ mérmeros "baneful, mischievous; captious, fastidious"; mérimna "care, thought; anxious mind"; mártus, márturos "witness"...
- Irreligious sentiments, drunken mockery, anticlerical expressions, were all captiously classified by the inquisitors (or by those who denounced the cases) as...
- party but to Rockefeller personally. In rapid succession, Mr. Rockefeller captiously took over most of the functions of the state chairman and in a matter...
- Everything, of course, turns out quite happily, except, perhaps, for those captious souls who regard religion as an adult matter." The Bells of St. Mary's...
- wooden box used to store a sailor's effects. sea lawyer an argumentative, captious sailor. sea shanty/chanty/chantey Work song to accompany rhythmical labor...
- France. Unigenitus censured 101 propositions of Pasquier Quesnel as: false, captious, ill-sounding, offensive to pious ears, scandalous, pernicious, rash, injurious...
- potent, honey-like or nauseous, quick or languid, corrosive and deadly, or captious and deceptive and narcotic. There… [241] The Mortuary 1971 The Mortuary...
- however, her commentary in "The Family" sketches is limited to constant captious complaints, belligerent remarks that instigate the other characters, and...
- (3.2 to 4.1 on a scale from 1 to 5,) but also the viewers inserted more captious grammar and spelling errors significantly when they believed the writer...