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Captiously

adverb
1.
In a captious, carping manner.





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"Captiously" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mr. Featherstone, captiously. "She was for reading when she sat with me. But I put a stop to that. She's got the newspaper to read out loud. That's enough for one day, I should think. I can't abide to see her reading to herself. You mind and not bring her any ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot
... wink with the Judge, points his thumb over his left shoulder, and says, captiously: "I always had an implacable hatred of that old thief. A ...
— Justice in the By-Ways - A Tale of Life • F. Colburn Adams


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