Meanings (ES + gloss)
capcioso
That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.
Were you aware that in your discourse last Sunday you attributed the captious Problem of the Sadducees to the Pharisees, as a proof of the obscure and sensual doctrines of the latt…
criticón • pejiguero
Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky.
...not an irritable word had escaped him; and as every captious conclusion and petulant observation had been in days past always attributed, very justly, by Isabella either to the…
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.
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