captious
adjective
[ ˈkapʃəs ]
• tending to find fault or raise petty objections.
• "a captious teacher"
Similar:
critical,
fault-finding,
quibbling,
niggling,
cavilling,
carping,
criticizing,
disapproving,
censorious,
judgemental,
overcritical,
hypercritical,
pedantic,
hair-splitting,
pettifogging,
pass-remarkable,
nitpicking,
pernickety,
persnickety,
Origin:
late Middle English (also in the sense ‘intended to deceive someone’): from Old French captieux or Latin captiosus, from captio(n- ) ‘seizing’, (figuratively) ‘deceiving’ (see caption).
