例文・使い方で印象づける「captious」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...Cold, distant, morose, with a face wearing all the marks of captious pride and malicious sternness, he repelled all advances... 
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...This is true of his Graustark stories—thoughsome captious critics profess tosee in them a similarity to AnthonyHope’s work—and the same quality isfound in “The Day of the Dog...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905」
..." There can be no doubtas to their airiness, but captious persons might dispute their titleto the other epithets...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...We know notwhether it has ever struck the reader, but the travellersby Dover coaches are less captious about pace thanthose on most others...
Robert Smith Surtees 「Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities」
...Added to this there are generally somecavilling, captious fellows in every field who extol a run to the master'sface, and abuse it behind his back...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...Without doubt, many traits are attributed to the Japanese by the casual observer or captious critic, through lack of ability to read between the lines...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...If one were captious, one might object tothe thickness of his lips...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930」
..., ought not to be interfered with by captiousreasoners in this objectionable manner...
Richard A. Proctor 「Myths and Marvels of Astronomy」
...'Body,' or what captious folk wouldcall 'heaviness,' is the first condition of good wine to thecolonial taste...
R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny 「Town Life in Australia」
...Joy sparkled in every countenance to see our old friend the'Supply' (I hope no reader will be so captious as to quarrel withthe phrase) enter the harbour from Batavia on the 19th ofOctober...
Watkin Tench 「A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson」
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