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Definition of Captiously

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

Meaning of Captiously from wikipedia

- Irreligious sentiments, drunken mockery, anticlerical expressions, were all captiously classified by the inquisitors (or by those who denounced the cases) as...
- appeared the (East) 'Atlantic Archipelago' will have any appeal beyond captious scholars. "Guardian Style Guide", The Guardian, London, 19 December 2008...
- 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...
- ; mora "delay, any duration of time" ⇒ mérmeros "baneful, mischievous; captious, fastidious"; mérimna "care, thought; anxious mind"; mártus, márturos "witness"...
- published Weeds in the Garden of Marriage: The Ethics of Race and Our Captious Critics that attacked the institution of marriage in modern Britain from...
- 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...
- at The Stag who stays for a month each year. She is old-fashioned and captious. Robert Underhay: Previous husband of Rosaleen Cloade. Said to have died...
- France. Unigenitus censured 101 propositions of Pasquier Quesnel as: false, captious, ill-sounding, offensive to pious ears, scandalous, pernicious, rash, injurious...
- appeared the (East) 'Atlantic Archipelago' will have any appeal beyond captious scholars. Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology by Judith Jesch 2003 Myers...
- 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...