adj. 1. Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults: a captious scholar. 2. Intended to entrap or confuse, as in an argument: a captious question. [Middle English capcious, from Old French captieux, from Latin capti  sus, from capti, seizure, sophism, from captus, past participle of capere, to seize; see kap- in Indo-European roots.]cap  tious·ly adv.cap tious·ness n. |
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The consciousness of having done amiss, had exposed her to a thousand inquietudes, and made her captious and irritable to a degree that must have been that had beenhard for him to bear.
Emma by Austen, Jane
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