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.”
Word of the Day - Ergatocracy (noun) ur-gat-ok-ra-see Government by the workers.
