captious
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Is captious a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.Examples: "[…]I know I loue in vaine, ſtriue againſt hope : Yet in this captious, and intemible Siue I ſtill poure in the waters of my loue And lacke not to looſe ſtill[…]"; "A captious queſtion, Sir, and your’s is one, Deſerves an anſwer ſimilar, or none."; "Were you aware that in your discourse last Sunday you attributed the captious Problem of the Sadducees to the Pharisees, as a proof of the obscure and sensual doctrines of the latter?"Synonyms: tricky, thorny, sophisticalobsolete
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