captiousness
- a word derived from captious.
Example Sentences
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Hägglund examines writing by C. S. Lewis, Augustine, and Kierkegaard with a generous captiousness, fair but firmly forensic.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019
He must have deeply discovered the means of attaching the monarch, of acting upon the legislature, and of controlling the captiousness of the people.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various
Close to a fire, although the day is oppressively warm, and wrapped in a flannel dressing-gown, sits an old man,—old, and full of the snarling captiousness that makes some white hairs hideous.
From Molly Bawn by Hamilton, Margaret Wolfe
The contention of the defendant that he had been "very imperfectly timed" has an air of captiousness.
From Mr. Punch Awheel The Humours of Motoring and Cycling by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
"Too long to discuss now" meant hours of captiousness and months of heroic surgery.
From The Education of Eric Lane by McKenna, Stephen
