Synonyms of captious

1 Syllable

slyer, slyest, sly, cross, slier, sliest

2 Syllables

pickier, grousing, fretful, peevish, crosser, tetchier, sneaking, crabbier, touchy, squeamish, mumpish, picky, whiny, tetchy, grumbly, nagging, carping, crusty, fractious, scoffing, crabby, crustier, chuffier, chuffy, jivey, waspy, specious, touchier, testier, testy, touchiest

3 Syllables

casuistic, finicky, demanding, critical, nit-picking, contrary, satiric, nitpicking, petulant, severe, fastidious, sarcastic, pecksniffian, nit-picky, querulous, caviling, cavillous, censorious, pharisaic, fault-finding, faultfinding, perverse, exacting

4 Syllables

disputatious, irritable, cantankerous, culpatory, weisenheiming, pharisaical, disparaging, exceptive, deprecating, acrimonious

5 Syllables

hypercritical, hypocritical, overcritical