[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

captious \cap"tious\, a. f. captieux, l. captiosus. see
   caption.
   1. apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to
      cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.
      1913 webster

            a captious and suspicious age.        --stillingfleet.
      1913 webster

            i am sensible i have not disposed my materials to
            abide the test of a captious controversy. --bwike.
      1913 webster

   2. fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious;
      troublesome.
      1913 webster

            captious restraints on navigation.    --bancroft.

   syn: caviling, carping, fault-finding; censorious;
        hypercritical; peevish, fretful; perverse; troublesome.

   usage: captious, caviling, carping. a captious person
          is one who has a fault-finding habit or manner, or is
          disposed to catch at faults, errors, etc., with
          quarrelsome intent; a caviling person is disposed to
          raise objections on frivolous grounds; carping implies
          that one is given to ill-natured, persistent, or
          unreasonable fault-finding, or picking up of the words
          or actions of others.
          1913 webster

                caviling is the carping of argument, carping the
                caviling of ill temper.           --c. j. smith.
          1913 webster
see also:
caption captious caviling carping 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

captious
     adj : tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious
           pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding
           tutor" syn: faultfinding
see also:
faultfinding 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

43 moby thesaurus words for "captious":
   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

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Translation of captious
...captious. captious in German is spitzfindig. captious in Spanish is ... captious ----. translation of captiously. translation of captiousness ... ..
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Definition of captious - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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