Word of the Day – Captious

Captious (adj)

kap-shus

Tending to find fault or raise petty objections.

Late Middle English (also in the sense ‘intended to deceive someone’): from Old French captieux or Latin captiosus, from captio(n-) ‘seizing’, (figuratively) ‘deceiving’ (see caption).

Example sentences

“He was the most captious teacher at school.”