c ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci ck cl cm cn co cp cr cs ct cu cw cy cz

Перевод: captious

[прилагательное]
придирчивый; обманчивый; каверзный; привязчивый

Тезаурус:

1. Spurious consultation, a patronising attitude to teachers, and a tendency to regard all criticism as captious and ill-formed, are - while not unknown among headteachers - unlikely to win the hearts and minds of those who actually have to make things happen.
2. - of a captious man.
3. Leapor's poetry makes clear that she suffered many distressing lectures from her father, yet if the poet and her father had reached an understanding, indeed, if they intended to use the money from the subscription to buy their freehold and have security for their life together, Landry's interpretation of this episode is simply captious.
4. rotate about their captious throats.
5. In Conway v. Rimmer (H.L., 1968) the need for secrecy was justified because: (a) it ensured full and frank discussion within the cabinet; (b) it helped to preserve the convention of collective responsibility; (c) it protected governments from ill-formed or captious criticism.
6. At the sight of his big-nosed face slanted across the screen, like a pale and captious parrot, the poet detested his sufficiency and looked across at her to ward off its effect.
7. captious, legal voices