captiousness

  • 41pestering — Synonyms and related words: adverse criticism, aggravating, animadversion, annoying, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, blandishment, bothering, bothersome, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, cajoling, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling,… …

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  • 42pettifoggery — Synonyms and related words: artifice, bickering, boggling, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, collusion, connivance, connivery, conspiracy, covin, dodgery, dodging, equivocation, evasion, fencing, foul play, hairsplitting, hedging, logic …

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  • 43prevarication — Synonyms and related words: bickering, blague, boggling, bouncer, canard, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, cock and bull story, coloring, confabulation, distortion, dodging, equivocation, evasion, exaggeration, fairy tale, false… …

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  • 44pussyfooting — Synonyms and related words: Washingtonese, all fours, bickering, boggling, bunkum, captious, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, dodging, equivocation, equivocatory, evasion, evasive,… …

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  • 45quibble — 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, cavil,… …

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  • 46quibbling — Synonyms and related words: adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bickering, boggling, captious, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, critical, criticism, cynical,… …

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  • 47rap — Synonyms and related words: a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, admonishment, admonition, adverse criticism, air, airing, analysis, analyze, anathematizing, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bagatelle, bang, bash,… …

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  • 48reflection — Synonyms and related words: CRT spot, DM display, Doppler signal, IF signal, IM display, Parthian shot, RF echoes, S curve, action and reaction, address, adumbration, adverse criticism, advisement, affirmation, albedo, allegation, animadversion,… …

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  • 49shifting — Synonyms and related words: aberrancy, aberrant, aberration, aberrative, adrift, afloat, alternating, alternation, amorphous, bend, bias, bickering, boggling, branching off, capricious, captiousness, caviling, changeable, changeful, chicane,… …

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  • 50shuffling — Synonyms and related words: Micawberish, adrift, afloat, alternating, alternation, ambling, amorphous, backward, bickering, boggling, capricious, captious, captiousness, cautious, caviling, changeable, changeful, chicane, chicanery, choplogic,… …

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