captious

• Hence they all say that the State Department is merely captious, and they pay less and less attention to it and care less and less for American opinion—if only they can continue to get munitions. —  The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II
• However captious or confident a critic may be, even the lightest reading of the critical past shows that the mountains of one day may be molehills to another. —  PoetryFoundation.org
• The failure to recognize the social claim as legitimate causes the trouble; the suspicion constantly remains that woman's public efforts are merely selfish and captious, and are not directed to the general good. —  Democracy and Social Ethics
• Seldom can penetration and courage in thinking hold their own against the miscellaneous habits of discourse; and nobody remembers that moral values must remain captious, and imaginative life ignoble and dark, so long as the whole basis and application of them is falsely conceived. —  The Life of Reason
• 3. A cross, captious, and contradictive spirit and conduct, delighting in opposition to the judgment of the church and her rulers. —  The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London

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