Read full poem →of Pope's epitaphs ('Lives of the Poets'), devotes a couple of pages of
somewhat captious criticism to these lines; but they have at least the
virtue of simplicity and sincerity, and are at once an admirable
Dictionary Entry
That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.
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Common Phrases
. captiouscritic captiouscriticism captiouscritics captiousspirit captiousquestions captious
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Poetry examples for “captious”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.