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Just as captiously, the cartoonist growled that Joanie wasn't Joan.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

"I don't know anything of the kind," retorted Rorie captiously.

From Vixen, Volume II. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

"I forget it, then, that's all," said she, captiously.

From A Rent In A Cloud by Lever, Charles James

It also explains to me why Burgsdorf and his men have taken up their abode here, and frequently talk so captiously and insolently when excited by wine.

From The Youth of the Great Elector by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)