Sample Sentences forcaptious (auto-selected)
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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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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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— too cheerful in my views to be captious.† (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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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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We shall not detain the reader with a description of the captious discussions that occupied the court for the first two hours, Judge Temple had impressed on the jury, in his charge, the necessity for dispatch on their part, recommending to their notice, from motives of humanity, the prisoners in the jail as the first objects of their attention.† (source)
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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)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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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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"A little too fond," said Mr. Featherstone, captiously.† (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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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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Please don't be captious with me.† (source)
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Chapter XVI: Why The National Vanity Of The Americans Is More Restless And Captious Than That Of The English.† (source)
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He grew by degrees less civil, put on more of the master, frequently found fault, was captious, and seem'd ready for an outbreaking.† (source)
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