Aranan: şaşırtan
captious
/ˈkæpʃəs/Giriş yap, bu kelimeyi “Kelimelerim”e ekle.
Çeviriler
sıfat
- captious General
- confounding General
- confusing General
- obfuscatory General
isim
- entangler General
- entanglers General
ifade
- many- Phrases
Tanımlar (İngilizce)
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sıfat
That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.
“[…]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[…]”
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sıfat
Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky.
“...not an irritable word had escaped him; and as every captious conclusion and petulant observation had been in days past always attributed, very justly, by Isabella either to the dyspepsia, brought on by his grief for Margarita, or the fever he sustained from the climate,...”