Captious
Captious adjective - Given to making or expressing unfavorable judgments about things.
Whining and captious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Whining" instead an adjective "Captious".
Nearby Words: caption, captiously
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- critical and captious
- critical and whining
- irritable and captious
- irritable and whining
- testy and captious
- testy and whining
- touchy and captious
- touchy and whining
- nagging and captious
- nagging and whining
- bad-tempered and captious
- bad-tempered and whining
- querulous and captious
- querulous and whining
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Whining and Captious. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/captious/whining
Captious & Whining. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/captious/whining>.
Whining or Captious. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/captious/whining.
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