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{"id": "captious", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "captious", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "captiously", "text": "captiously"}, {"id": "captiousness", "text": "captiousness"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["late Middle English (also in the sense \u2018intended to deceive someone\u2019): from Old French captieux or Latin captiosus, from captio(n-) \u2018seizing\u2019, (figuratively) \u2018deceiving\u2019 (see caption)"], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/captious_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8kap\u0283\u0259s"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["tending to find fault or raise petty objections"], "examples": [{"text": "a captious teacher"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0151110.005", "registers": [{"id": "formal", "text": "Formal"}], "shortDefinitions": ["tending to find fault or raise petty objections"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "critical"}, {"language": "en", "text": "fault-finding"}, {"language": "en", "text": "quibbling"}, {"language": "en", "text": "niggling"}, {"language": "en", "text": "cavilling"}, {"language": "en", "text": "carping"}, {"language": "en", "text": "criticizing"}, {"language": "en", "text": "disapproving"}, {"language": "en", "text": "censorious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "judgemental"}, {"language": "en", "text": "overcritical"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hypercritical"}, {"language": "en", "text": "pedantic"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hair-splitting"}, {"language": "en", "text": "pettifogging"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "captious", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0002030.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "adjective", "text": "Adjective"}, "text": "captious"}], "type": "headword", "word": "captious"}], "word": "captious"}
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