captiousness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for captiousness
Noun
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    Erica Sweeney, Time, 17 July 2025
  • Is your irritability to the level where your children might notice or your husband might have some comments about the irritability?
    Essence, Essence, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • Medium-bodied, with lovely freshness, very good acidity, textbook varietal purity and good persistence.
    Tom Hyland, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • This allows their crisp acidity and refreshing nature to really shine through.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • Schwartzman pours all of the requisite bitterness and petulance into Ash, including a few very funny tantrums.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 June 2025
  • For all his bombast online, for instance, Marcus has said that today’s chatbots are a legitimate breakthrough, just far from the breakthrough; for all of Altman’s petulance, OpenAI’s latest large reasoning models rely on new approaches not so dissimilar from Marcus’s own, decades-old ideas.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 8 July 2025
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“Captiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/captiousness. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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