captious

[cap·tious]

If someone tends to be hypercritical and find fault with everything, you can describe that person as captious. Try not to be described as a captious person yourself, however. No one likes a carping individual!

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Art to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.

Adjective S.
tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"


a.
Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.

a.
Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome.


Captious

Cap"tious , a. [F. captieux, L. captiosus. See Caption.] 1. Art to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.
A captius and suspicious.
I am sensible I have not disposed my materials to adbide the test of a captious controversy.
2. Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome.
Captious restraints on navigation.
Syn. -- Caviling, carping, fault-finding; censorious; hypercritical; peevish, fretful; perverse; troublesome. -- Captious, caviling, Carping. A captious person is one who has a fault-finding habit or manner, or is disposed to catch at faults, errors, etc., with quarrelsome intent; a caviling person is disposed to raise objections on frivolous grounds; carping implies that one is given to ill-natured, persistent, or unreasonable fault-finding, or picking up of the words or actions of others.
Caviling is the carping of argument, carping the caviling of ill temper.

Art to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.

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