captious English

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captious

— adjective (= faultfinding) tending to find and call attention to faults a captious pedant an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor

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faultfinding

nagging

fault-finding

carping

surly

overparticular

crabbed

wayward

waspish

vixenish

untoward

ungenerous

testy

sullen

squiggly

splenish

splenetic

shrewish

recalcitrant

petty

pettish

persnickety

pernickety

peevish

pedantic

notional

morose

meanspirited

illtempered

grouching

fretful

exceptive

cussed

crotchety

cross

cranky

churlish

cavilling

cantankerous

bloody-minded

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