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On that, too, we take a different, possible a captious position.

White House responses to his position have been harsh, captious.

The most captious critic could find no flaw in this production.

To call this novel mule-paced is not to be captious.

In trying to be more serious, the play only becomes more captious.

Is it not captious to dwell on these Presidential absurdities?

But everything we say is metaphorical if we choose to be captious.

I do not mean the chicane or wrangling and captious part of the Law.

The youngest fish, either playful or captious, ducked and plunged.

I have been quoted as saying captious things about travel; but I mean to do justice.

I cannot afford to be irritable and captious, nor to waste all my time in attacks.

A single glance at the pair would have answered these questions to the utter satisfaction of the most captious.

Still, says the captious reader of this review, wasn't she a screenwriter, too?

Yet ultimately his approach offers more than captious one-upmanship.

But his tone was more affectionate than captious.

"It is unwise to be captious in affairs of negotiation," remarked the young man thoughtfully.

Their captious reasoning: Since the patient has no reason to rely on the clinic for complete medical advice, she will not be misled.

It would be captious to argue otherwise.

-- too cheerful in my views to be captious.

The hero is insolent, fallible, captious and capricious - in other words, human.

He is extremely severe and captious commander.

But his criticism is never captious, never a wish that a writer was somebody he is not.

Lord, what troublesome, demanding and captious employers gods were, never a-quiet.

It would take a fastidious and captious member of the Baker Street cult to detect why.

The old man said, "You are captious today, my demoniac visitant-a vicious trait.