Usually means: Tending to find and criticize faults.
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  1. captious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. captious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. captious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. captious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. captious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Captious, captious: Wordnik
  7. captious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. captious: Wiktionary
  9. captious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. captious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. captious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Captious, captious: Dictionary.com
  13. captious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Captious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. captious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. captious: Rhymezone
  17. Captious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. captious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. captious: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. captious: Free Dictionary
  21. captious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. captious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. captious: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Captious: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. captious: A Word A Day
  2. captious: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. captious: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (captious)

adjective:  (obsolete) That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.
adjective:  Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky.

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