(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.