captious
suomi-englanti sanakirjacaptious englannista suomeksi
pikkumainen, saivarteleva
captious englanniksi
That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.
(syn)
(quote-text)I know I loue in vaine, ſtriue againſt hope : Yet in this captious, and intemible Siue I ſtill poure in the waters of my loue And lacke not to looſe ſtill(..)
(quote-book)
{{quote-book|en|date=March 24, 1815|chapter=To William Lisle Bowles|author=Samuel Taylor Coleridge|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=P98V-3-qzp0C&pg=PA558|page=558|year_published=2000|publisher=Oxford|isbn=0198187459|title=Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky.
(RQ:Landon Lady Anne Granard)
{{quote-text|en|year=1968|author=Fyodor Dostoyevsky|translator=Sidney Monas|title=Crime and Punishment|year_published=1866
{{quote-journal|en|author=Anne Karpf|journal=The Guardian|date=24 Jan 2009