Akademik

captious

Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections.

But Peter Petrovich did not accept this retort. On the contrary, he became all the more captious and irritable, as though he were just hitting his stride.

Syn: faultfinding, nitpicky, carping, critical, hypercritical, tricky, thorny, sophistical

See Also: caption, capture

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