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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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A critic, and not necessarily a captious one, might argue that this title is in that no-man's-land in which paradox verges on contradiction.
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.
Is it simply captious to ask, if I had suggested 14 June, whether then it would have been brought back to 31 May?
Through his pen, inanity became animate, and the captious craft of caricature was raised to character study.
I do not want to sound captious, but what was happening is essentially my question.
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.

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