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Best answers for captious – Crossword Clue


Answer: carping


Clue Length Answer
captious5 letterstesty
  1. Definition: 1. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

captious5 letterscross
  1. Definition: 1. breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed"

captious6 letterstouchy
  1. Definition: 1. difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject"

captious7 letterscarping

    captious7 letterspeevish
    1. Definition: 1. Anxious

    captious7 letterstrivial
    1. Definition: 1. concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"

    captious7 lettersfretful
    1. Definition: 1. habitually complaining; "a whiny child"

    captious7 letterscynical
    1. Definition: 1. believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others

    captious8 letterstrifling
    1. Definition: 1. consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania"

    captious8 letterspetulant
    1. Definition: 1. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

    captious8 letterscritical
    1. Definition: 1. marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude"

    captious8 letterscaviling

      captious9 lettersquibbling

        captious9 lettersshuffling

          captious9 letterssophistic

            captious9 letterssarcastic
            1. Definition: 1. expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds

            captious9 letterssplenetic
            1. Definition: 1. very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

            captious9 lettersirritable
            1. Definition: 1. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

            captious10 letterscensorious
            1. Definition: 1. harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"

            captious12 letterspussyfooting

              captious13 lettershypercritical
              1. Definition: 1. inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality"

              captious13 lettersfault-finding


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