CAPTIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does captiously mean? 

• CAPTIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb CAPTIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a captious, carping manner

  Familiarity information: CAPTIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPTIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a captious, carping manner

Context example:

he was captiously pedantic

Pertainym:

captious (tending to find and call attention to faults)

 Context examples 

We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment's inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness." And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)