Adjective:

குறை காணும் பண்புள்ள,

captious's Usage Examples:

) proved a somewhat captious critic.

The captious logic of the Megarian school was indeed in some cases closely related to sceptical results.

The most foolish and discreditable was certainly that of Davies; his unworthy attempt to depreciate the great historian's learning, and his captious, cavilling, acrimonious charges of petty inaccuracies and discreditable falsification gave the object of his attack an easy triumph.

His name has been preserved chiefly by some celebrated, though false and captious, syllogisms of which he was the reputed author.

, wherein he denounced the Jesuit offenders as "disobedient, contumacious, captious and reprobate persons," and enacted many stringent regulations for their better government.

For criticisms (many of them somewhat captious) see Kijnig's reply to Hommel (Berlin, 1902), A.

"The most foolish and discreditable was certainly that of Davies; his unworthy attempt to depreciate the great historian's learning, and his captious, cavilling, acrimonious charges of petty inaccuracies and discreditable falsification gave the object of his attack an easy triumph.

Synonyms:

critical, faultfinding,

Antonyms:

favorable, nonjudgmental, uncritical,