Usually means: Critically finding fault; nitpicking excessively.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. captiously: Merriam-Webster
  2. captiously: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. captiously: Collins English Dictionary
  4. captiously: Wiktionary
  5. Captiously, captiously: Dictionary.com
  6. Captiously: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. captiously: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. captiously: Rhymezone
  9. Captiously: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. captiously: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. captiously: FreeDictionary.org
  12. captiously: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Captiously: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. captiously: Vocabulary.com
  15. captiously: Wordnik

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. captiously: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (captiously)

▸ adverb:  In a captious manner.

Similar:
cattily, censoriously, cattishly, caddishly, cavilingly, crabbedly, criticizingly, snarkishly, snappishly, cagily, more...

Opposite:
uncritically, generously, leniently

Types:
nitpicking, quibbling, caviling, carping, chiding, nagging, reproaching, scolding, more...

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Similar:
cattily, censoriously, cattishly, caddishly, cavilingly, crabbedly, criticizingly, snarkishly, snappishly, cagily, more...

Opposite:
uncritically, generously, leniently

Types:
nitpicking, quibbling, caviling, carping, chiding, nagging, reproaching, scolding, more...



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