captious

How To Use captious In A Sentence

• In his letters, as in conversation, he offers himself no sanctuary, and the picture we are left to gather is an exaggeration of the facts: cold, hard, captious, rarely affectionate, often gloomy.
• All this exactness of requisition appeared to me to be going rather too far; and I exhibited my feeling on the subject, in the tone in which I replied, that I had stated every thing that was necessary for the satisfaction of a "man of sense, but that I had neither the faculty nor the inclination to indulge the captiousness of any man. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
• But maybe that's because Greg Sargent's question is based on a captious and stingy premise. Hillary's Closer -- A Big Moment, Or Not Enough?
• A rather more captious way of putting your submission seems to be that, and are searching for identity and you do not demonstrate identity by ignoring change.
• You see paint indicate on the bucket 10% - rate of 20% add water, you attribute inurbane demand captious .
• The voyage for me is almost over: I am in sight of port: like a good shipman, I have already sent down the lofty spars and housed the captious canvas in preparation for the long anchorage: I have little now to fear. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
• Besides, captiousness, sullenness, and pouting are most exceedingly illiberal and vulgar. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
• I do not want to sound captious, but what was happening is essentially my question.
• It must be said it is difficult for any club to have one of these in the captious world of football.
• Those interchanges have ranged from the thoughtful interplay of ideas and differing points of view, to the captious arguments of those whose only apparent mission in life is to dismiss anything or anyone pointing a way forward. Russell Bishop: What We Need Are A Few Good Cynics