Exceptious

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  • adj. Apt to take exception, or to object; captious.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Disposed to take exception or make objection; inclined to object or cavil; captious.
  • Word Usage
    "In truth, the texture of that salmon-coloured skin could be seen to be aristocratic without a microscope, and the exceptious artizan has an offhand way when contrasts are made painfully strong by an idler of this kind coming, gloved and brushed, into the very den where he is sweating and muddling in his shirt-sleeves."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    captious    caviling