| By now, his hostile rhetoric has carried him beyond the self-discipline of consistency, and he becomes merely quarrelsome and captious. |
| Through his pen, inanity became animate, and the captious craft of caricature was raised to character study. |
| Crosby was particularly captious of Waters, arguing that she was, after all, a highly regarded actress and celebrated role model for the African American community. |
| If it is not wide-ranging and erratic, captious and unpredictable, it is not taste but snobbery. |
| I do not want to sound captious, but what was happening is essentially my question. |
| Is it simply captious to ask, if I had suggested 14 June, whether then it would have been brought back to 31 May? |
