captious

Definition of Captious in English :

1. captious, faultfinding

tending to find and call attention to faults

Example Sentences:
'a captious pedant'
'an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Captious

adjective

apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping

adjective

1.

made only for the sake of argument or faultfinding

captious criticism

2.

fond of catching others in mistakes; quick to find fault; quibbling; carping

adj.

1. Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults: a captious scholar.

2. Intended to entrap or confuse, as in an argument: a captious question.