Captious

a.	1.	Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. A captious and suspicious age. - Stillingfleet. I am sensible I have not disposed my materials to abide the test of a captious controversy. - Bwike.
	2.	Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome. Captious restraints on navigation. - Bancroft. Caviling is the carping of argument, carping the caviling of ill temper. - C. J. Smith.

Adj.

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captious - tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor" Synonyms: faultfinding

bickering, carping, caviling, censorious, choplogic, contrary, critic, critical, cynical, demanding, equivocatory, evasive, exacting, faultfinding, finicky, hairsplitting, hedging, hypercritical, irritable, logic-chopping, nagging, niggling, nit-picking, overcritical, paltering, particular, peevish, pernickety, perverse, pettifogging, petty, petulant, picayune, pussyfooting, quibbling, shuffling, snappish, snappy, testy, trichoschistic, trifling, trivial, ultracritical