Captious Mnemonic
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captious
captious
/ˈkæpʃəs/
faultfinding
nitpicky
carping
critical
hypercritical
tricky
thorny
sophistical
Examples
- Olberon, you seem to be wikilawyering here, just giving captious criticism.
- It's not a captious argument though.
- They are captious people indeed.
- They should not becom captious.
- The captious men came along.
- He is extremely severe and captious commander.
- People did not want to become captious.
- The captious people played along together.
- I think you are just engaging in captious arguments here.
- INTps also look after their health and can be very captious in these matters.
tending to find and call attention to faults
adjective
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"Cap + Tissues. Wearing a cap he finds faults, like tissues everywhere."
"Cap + Shush. He puts on his cap, ready to shush and fault-find at any moment."
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