What's the difference between captious and nasute?
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.
Nasute
Definition:
(a.) Having a nice sense of smell.
(a.) Critically nice; captious.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the first time, he acquired ideas with a political edge, and soon became assistant to the chief of staff, General Nasution.