Captious
Captious adjective - Given to making or expressing unfavorable judgments about things.
Deprecative and captious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Deprecative" instead an adjective "Captious".
Nearby Words: caption, captiously
Deprecative
Deprecative adjective - Tending to diminish or disparage.
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Synonyms for Deprecative
Captious and deprecative are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Captious" instead an adjective "Deprecative".
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Related pairs
- critical and captious
- critical and deprecative
- sarcastic and captious
- sarcastic and deprecative
- disparaging and captious
- disparaging and deprecative
- derogatory and captious
- derogatory and deprecative
- disapproving and captious
- disapproving and deprecative
- hypercritical and captious
- hypercritical and deprecative
- faultfinding and captious
- faultfinding and deprecative
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