captious

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Английский Язык - Турецкий язык
{s} kusur bulan
{s} yanıltıcı
müşkülpesent
zor beğenir
titiz
cap tiously tenkit eder bir şekilde
{s} ince eleyip sık dokuyan
tatmin edilmesi güç
{s} boş
captiousness tenkitçilik tenkit etme
{s} kılı kırk yaran
{s} asılsız

Связанные Термины

captiously
zor beğenir şekilde
captiously
titiz bir şekilde
hypercritical
{s} aşırı derecede eleştiren
hypercritical
aşırı eleştiren
hypercritical
{s} titiz
hypercritical
{s} detaycı
hypercritical
{s} aşırı eleştirici
Английский Язык - Английский Язык
Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections

But Peter Petrovich did not accept this retort. On the contrary, he became all the more captious and irritable, as though he were just hitting his stride.

Intended to capture or entrap

Deserves an answer similar, or none.

hypercritical
{a} apt to find fault, peevish, ensnaring
Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome
tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor
intended to trap or confuse
Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please
having a disposition to find, and point out minor faults; to judge too severely
tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"
{s} narrow-minded, fault-finding, picky

Связанные Термины

captiousness
Captious behaviour
captiously
{a} in snaring manner, crossly
captiousness
{n} peevishness, ill-nature, crossness
captiously
In a captious manner
captiously
in a narrow-minded manner
captiously
in a captious, carping manner; "he was captiously pedantic
captiousness
{i} narrow-mindedness, fussiness
captiousness
Captious disposition or manner
captiousness
The state of being captious
captious
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