captiousness
11animadversion — Synonyms and related words: accusation, adverse criticism, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, censure, criticism, exception, faultfinding, flak, hairsplitting, hit, home thrust, hostile… …
12aspersion — Synonyms and related words: abuse, adverse criticism, affront, affusion, agape, allegation, animadversion, aspergation, asperges, atrocity, auricular confession, backbiting, bad notices, bad press, baptism, baptismal gown, baptismal regeneration …
13bad notices — Synonyms and related words: adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad press, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, criticism, exception, faultfinding, flak, hairsplitting, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism,… …
14bad press — Synonyms and related words: adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, criticism, exception, faultfinding, flak, hairsplitting, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism,… …
15bickering — Synonyms and related words: Kilkenny cats, aflicker, aggressive, aggressiveness, altercation, apologetics, apologia, apology, argument, argumentation, bellicose, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerent, bicker, blinking, boggling, captious,… …
16carping — Synonyms and related words: adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, blameful, captious, captiousness, cavil, caviling, censorious, censoriousness, condemnatory, critical, criticism, cynical, damnatory, exception,… …
17cavil — Synonyms and related words: adverse criticism, animadversion, argue, argufy, around the bush, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bandy words, beat about, beg the question, bicker, boggle, captiousness, carp, carping, catch at straws, caviling,… …
18chicanery — Synonyms and related words: art, artful dodge, artifice, bag of tricks, baseness, bickering, blind, bluff, boggling, bosey, captiousness, catch, caviling, cheating, chicane, chouse, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, contrivance, coup …
19criticism — Synonyms and related words: adverse criticism, analysis, animadversion, appraisal, approval, aspersion, assessment, bad notices, bad press, book review, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, censure, comment, commentary,… …
20dodging — Synonyms and related words: bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, clock watching, ducking, equivocation, evasion, fencing, goofing off, hairsplitting, hedging, logic chopping, malingering, nit picking, paltering,… …
