captiously
- a word derived from captious.
Example Sentences
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A captiously critical man reading the New Republic's Promise of American Life might define a liberal as one in a gloomy state of mind.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just as captiously, the cartoonist growled that Joanie wasn't Joan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Posed in a blaze of lights, the Princess Sofia contemplated captiously the charming image reflected in her cheval-glass.
From Red Masquerade by Vance, Louis Joseph
"Well, it is too late to think of it now," said I, rather captiously; for I began to be worried with the mystification.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James
This did not, however, prevent him from noticing the change in her position, and captiously resenting it.
From The Crusade of the Excelsior by Harte, Bret
