Words and phrases that have a meaning related to captious: (126 results)
Often used in the same context:
egoistical, purblind, lunkheaded, brusk, rebarbative, graceless, delusory, mealymouthed, schoolmarmish, disrespectable, thickheaded, onanistic, fuddy, substanceless, ineloquent, disdainful, cloddish, jejune, unintellectual, fatuous, mulish, supercilious, overcritical, dunderheaded, amour propre, softheaded, unheeding, unacademic, unthinking, megalomanic, cretinous, obsequious, simpleminded, overemotional, otiose, jackassery, recriminatory, pernickety, accusative, solipsistic, unpoetic, inefficacious, contemptuous, sheeplike, philistine, unchivalrous, blither, machiavellian, jesuitical, unmannerly, pharisaical, muddleheaded, untempered, witless, sententious, parti pris, sanctimonious, pedantic, moronic, unquotable, meanspirited, haughty, unentertaining, sesquipedalian, puerile, chauvinistic, cultureless, unreasoned, clubbish, schoolmasterly, unrepressed, reproachful, humorless, womanish, goony, unreflective, unaffecting, vapid, delusive, blinkered, inharmonious, unstatesmanlike, incommunicative, obtuse, delphic, unmodern, phantasmal, unworthy, sophistic, deracinated, hypermasculine, overdetermined, vacuous, antipathetic, feckless, unappreciative, pinheaded, dostoevskian, fuddled, addlepated, abstract noun, bromidic, censorious, sceptical, skeptical, peevish, querulous, spiteful, cynical, hypercritical, prejudiced, uncharitable, disputatious, distrustful, embittered, inquisitive, perspicacious, ungenerous, vehement, envious, ingenuous, petulant
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caption, captiously
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Also try:critical, faultfinding
— Nouns for captious: critic, criticism, spirit, critics, questions, objections, question, criticisms, temper, arguments, mood, more...
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