Both Uses of
captious
in
Emma
- The consciousness of having done amiss, had exposed her to a thousand inquietudes, and made her captious and irritable to a degree that must have been—that had been—hard for him to bear.†
Chpt 3.11-12
- — too cheerful in my views to be captious.†
Chpt 3.13-14 *
Definition:
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(captious) tending to find and call attention to faults