What's the difference between captious and hypercritical?

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.

Hypercritical


Definition:

  • (a.) Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping; captious.
  • (a.) Excessively nice or exact.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The main reasons why the program did not produce the other 142 comments were: insufficient data in the computer-based medical record; absence of sufficient medical consensus; and omissions in the database of hypercritic.
  • (2) Given the fickle and hypercritical nature of the group, in conceiving Spamalot Idle had to manage his expectations.
  • (3) HyperCritic has access to the data stored in a primary-care information system that supports a fully automated medical record.
  • (4) But four years after Greece went hypercritical, triggering a eurozone sovereign debt crisis and a reshaping of how the EU works, the social, economic and political costs of the upheaval are coming home to roost.
  • (5) On the basis of reviewing his role in the Medico-Psychological Association (MPA), his rather pessimistic and degenerationist philosophy, his undoubted wealth and his 'hypercritical nature', it is possible to define an alternative view of his significance and influence.
  • (6) The core of the model underlying HyperCritic is that the process of generating the critiquing statements is viewed as the application of a limited set of abstract critiquing tasks.
  • (7) Behind the scenes, it argues, Deng had become hypercritical and aggressive towards Murdoch.
  • (8) His peddling of a ‘moral’ justification for perpetuating fossil fuel dependence in developing countries is hypercritical and ill-informed.
  • (9) Calculation of an "index of merit" ([sensitivity + specificity] - 1) for individual reviewers showed that hypercritic performed better (index of merit 0.62) in its limited domain than did physician reviewers (0.3-0.56).
  • (10) Unlike some players, Murray is a superb analyst of his own tennis, often hypercritical and rarely complacent, even in moments of grand achievement.
  • (11) We have written a computer program called 'HyperCritic' that audits general practitioners' management of patients with essential hypertension by taking patient-specific data from the ELIAS system.
  • (12) Of 468 comments on patient management, 260 were judged correct by six or more of the physicians; hypercritic also made 118 of these 260 comments.
  • (13) We investigated whether the computer-based medical records contain sufficient information to generate critiques, and compared the limitations of audit by hypercritic with those of review by a panel of eight physicians.
  • (14) After detecting the relevant events in the medical record, HyperCritic views the task of critiquing as the assignment of critiquing statements to these patient-specific events.
  • (15) He was prone to shame and guilt, self-criticism, and hidden hypercritical attitudes toward others.
  • (16) We describe the design of a critiquing system, HyperCritic, that relies on automated medical records for its data input.
  • (17) Hypercritic and the physicians independently reviewed the medical records of 20 randomly selected patients with hypertension and commented on the decisions made at each of 243 patient visits.
  • (18) The principal advantage demonstrated by HyperCritic is the adaption of a domain-independent critiquing structure.