Captious
Captious adjective - Given to making or expressing unfavorable judgments about things.
Crotchety and captious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Crotchety" instead an adjective "Captious".
Nearby Words: caption, captiously
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- irritable and captious
- irritable and crotchety
- cranky and captious
- cranky and crotchety
- testy and captious
- testy and crotchety
- contrary and captious
- contrary and crotchety
- touchy and captious
- touchy and crotchety
- fractious and captious
- fractious and crotchety
- irascible and captious
- irascible and crotchety
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