Captious /(?)/

Cap·tious

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.
    Caviling is the carping of argument, carping the caviling of ill temper.
    — C. J. Smith.