Crossword-Solution: CAPTIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Captious | a. | Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. |
| Captious | a. | Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CAPTIOUS (5)
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.
Cold, distant, morose, with a face wearing all the marks of captious pride and malicious sternness, he repelled all advances.
His portrait adorned the front page of almost every Boston newspaper the next morning, and captious critics vied with each other to do him honor.
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.
Many a lucky coup has become manque by some captious player exercising this privilege, and many an angry rencontre has ensued between the officious meddler and the disappointed caster, who finds that he has nicked his main to no advantage.
Quotes with CAPTIOUS (2)
Eustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity. On Olympus she would have done well with a little preparation. She had the passions and instincts which make a model goddess, that is, those which make not quite a model woman. Had it been possible for the earth and mankind to be entirely in her grasp for a while, she had handled the distaff, the spindle, and the shears at her own free will, few in the world would have noticed the change of government. There would have been the…
But there is a way of despising the dandelion which is not that of the dreary pessimist, but of the more offensive optimist. It can be done in various ways; one of which is saying, "You can get much better dandelions at Selfridge's," or "You can get much cheaper dandelions at Woolworth's." Another way is to observe with a casual drawl, "Of course nobody but Gamboli in Vienna really understands dandelions," or saying that nobody would put up with the old-fashioned dandelion si…
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Appears in: LAT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2004).