Captious
Captious adjective - Given to making or expressing unfavorable judgments about things.
Shrewish and captious are semantically related in contentious topic. In some cases you can use "Shrewish" instead an adjective "Captious".
Nearby Words: caption, captiously
Shrewish
Shrewish adjective - Continually complaining or faultfinding.
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Synonyms for Shrewish
Captious and shrewish are semantically related in complaining topic. Sometimes you can use "Captious" instead an adjective "Shrewish", if it concerns topics such as contentious.
Nearby Word: shrew
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- critical and captious
- critical and shrewish
- irritable and captious
- irritable and shrewish
- ill-tempered and captious
- ill-tempered and shrewish
- sarcastic and captious
- sarcastic and shrewish
- testy and captious
- testy and shrewish
- fractious and captious
- fractious and shrewish
- nagging and captious
- nagging and shrewish
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