THERE IS NO CAPTIOUS CLIENT BUT FAULTY PRODUCT. 4、只有不完美的产品,没有挑剔的客户。
The young people are becoming more and more captious to their wearing these days. 如今年轻人对他们的穿着变得越来越挑剔了。
His criticisms were always captious and frivolous, never offering constructive suggestions. 他的评论一向轻率并爱吹毛求疵,从不提出有建设性的建议。
captious
[ adj ] tending to find and call attention to faults <adj.all> a captious pedantan excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor
Captious \Cap"tious\, a. [F. captieux, L. captiosus. See {Caption}.] 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.
Usage: {Captious}, {caviling}, {Carping}. A captious person is one who has a fault-finding habit or manner, or is disposed to catch at faults, errors, etc., with quarrelsome intent; a caviling person is disposed to raise objections on frivolous grounds; carping implies that one is given to ill-natured, persistent, or unreasonable fault-finding, or picking up of the words or actions of others.
Caviling is the carping of argument, carping the caviling of ill temper. --C. J. Smith.