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The child is spoiled, captious, and insolent.
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For, say what you would, she was certainly acting very unfairly and captiously in all this.† (source)
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The honest old scholar suffered every abuse imaginable as a result of young Leo's intellectual obstinacy, captiousness, skepticism, contrariness, and cutting dialectical logic.† (source)
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"A little too fond," said Mr. Featherstone, captiously.† (source)
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We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment's inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.† (source)
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Which still, with froward captiousness, impains E'en the presentiment of every joy, While low realities and paltry cares The spirit's fond imaginings destroy.† (source)
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Then the old woman trudged out to get a girl for Hungry Joe, dipping her captious head sadly, and returned with two big-bosomed beauties, one already undressed and the other in only a transparent pink half slip that she wiggled out of while sitting down.† (source)
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"I wish you'd learn to put the caps back on things properly when you're finished using them," she said in a tone she fully meant to sound captious.† (source)
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And yet the time is come when one may speak in all sincerity and utter courtesy of the mistakes and shortcomings of Mr. Washington's career, as well as of his triumphs, without being thought captious or envious, and without forgetting that it is easier to do ill than well in the world.† (source)
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Those who remained yawned, talked, gossiped, consulted their tablets, and, all distinctions else forgotten, merged into but two classes—the winners, who were happy, and the losers, who were grum and captious.† (source)
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Please don't be captious with me.† (source)
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Georgiana, who had a spoiled temper, a very acrid spite, a captious and insolent carriage, was universally indulged.† (source)
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She was dry, rough, peevish, sharp, captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow she was, and who had ruled over her masterfully and bent her to his will.† (source)
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There would have been the same inequality of lot, the same heaping up of favours here, of contumely there, the same generosity before justice, the same perpetual dilemmas, the same captious alteration of caresses and blows that we endure now.† (source)
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"That canoe may not belong to the cutter," said the captious seaman.† (source)
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"Now, my best of confidantes," said Richard, "I want my cousin Ada to understand that I am not captious, fickle, and wilful about John Jarndyce, but that I have this purpose and reason at my back.† (source)
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