captiousness
51slam — Synonyms and related words: Parthian shot, adverse criticism, altogether, animadversion, aspersion, attack, back answer, bad notices, bad press, bang, bang into, bar, barrack, barricade, bash, bastinado, bat, batten, batten down, batter, beat,… …
52stricture — Synonyms and related words: abbreviation, adverse criticism, anathema, animadversion, arraignment, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, aspersion, astriction, astringency, bad notices, bad press, blame, blockage, blocking, bottleneck, captiousness,… …
53subterfuge — Synonyms and related words: airtight secrecy, alibi, apology, art, artful dodge, artifice, bag of tricks, bamboozlement, befooling, bickering, blind, bluff, bluffing, boggling, bosey, burial, burying, calculated deception, captiousness, catch,… …
54swipe — Synonyms and related words: Parthian shot, abstract, adverse criticism, and, animadversion, annex, appropriate, aspersion, back answer, bad notices, bad press, bag, bang, barrack, bash, bat, beating, belt, biff, blow, bonk, boost, borrow,… …
55Discourtesy — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Discourtesy >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 discourtesy discourtesy Sgm: N 1 ill breeding ill breeding Sgm: N 1 ill manners ill manners bad manners ungainly manners Sgm: N 1 insuavity insuavity Sgm: N 1 uncourteousness …
56captious — [ kapʃəs] adjective formal tending to find fault or raise petty objections. Derivatives captiously adverb captiousness noun Origin ME: from OFr. captieux or L. captiosus, from captio(n ) (see caption) …
57fretfulness — n. Peevishness, petulance, touchiness, testiness, snappishness, waspishness, pettishness, spleen, captiousness, irritability, ill humor, ill temper …
58fault-finding — noun he came to expect nothing but fault finding from his wife Syn: criticism, captiousness, caviling, quibbling; complaining, grumbling, carping, moaning; informal nitpicking, griping, grousing, bellyaching Ant: praise …
59pedantry — noun the pedantry in her argument has upset the flow of our discussion Syn: dogmatism, purism, literalism, formalism; overscrupulousness, scrupulousness, perfectionism, fastidiousness, punctiliousness, meticulousness; captiousness, quibbling,… …
60animadversion — animadversion, stricture, aspersion, reflection denote a remark or statement that is an adverse criticism. Animadversion (compare animadvert at REMARK) implies as its motive deep seated prejudice or ill will or a tendency to carp or cavil {given… …
