Captious and Tough

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Captious adjective - Given to making or expressing unfavorable judgments about things.

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Tough and captious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tough" instead an adjective "Captious".

Nearby Words: caption, captiously

Tough adjective - Not easily chewed.

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Captious and tough are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Captious" instead an adjective "Tough".

Nearby Words: toughness, toughen, toughening, tougher, toughed

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