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What does captious mean?

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Adjective
  1. (obsolete) That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.
  2. Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky.
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Through his pen, inanity became animate, and the captious craft of caricature was raised to character study.
The McIlhennys bump along the well-trodden tourist path, she captious, he grouchy.
A rather more captious way of putting your submission seems to be that, and are searching for identity and you do not demonstrate identity by ignoring change.
Is it simply captious to ask, if I had suggested 14 June, whether then it would have been brought back to 31 May?
It must be said it is difficult for any club to have one of these in the captious world of football.
The story is autobiographical, and the tyrannical, captious, arbitrary, and selfish landowner is the author's mother, Varvara Petrovna Turgeneva.

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