captious

captious englannista suomeksi

1. pikkumainen, saivarteleva

1. harhaanjohtava

2. pikkumainen

captious englanniksi

1. That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.

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2. (quote-text)I know I loue in vaine, ſtriue againſt hope : / Yet in this captious, and intemible Siue / I ſtill poure in the waters of my loue / And lacke not to looſe ſtill(..)

3. (quote-book)

4. {{quote-book|en|date=March 24, 1815|chapter=To William Lisle Bowles|author=Samuel Taylor Coleridge|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=P98V-3-qzp0C&pg=PA558|page=558|year_published=2000|publisher=Oxford|isbn=0198187459|title=Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

5. Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky.

6. (RQ:Landon Lady Anne Granard)

7. {{quote-text|en|year=1968|author=Fyodor Dostoyevsky|translator=Sidney Monas|title=Crime and Punishment|year_published=1866

8. {{quote-journal|en|author=Anne Karpf|journal=The Guardian|date=24 Jan 2009