What's the difference between captious and faultfinding?

Captious


Definition:

  • (a.) Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.
  • (a.) Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Present day abandonment includes the deployment of professionals from patients to paper; the destruction of availability and effectiveness of institutional facilities; the obfuscation of mental illness by captious, sematic criticism; the aspirations of paramedical and paraprofessional groups; and the subordination of the primary purpose of institutions and physicians to other objectives.
  • (2) It's got to combine love and friendship, but also, you can't be captious.
  • (3) But this was the captious side of him, furious that Marr was not playing by the rules, or, more accurately, respecting his usual exemption from aggressive cross-examination.

Faultfinding


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