captious
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(adjective) marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections / (adjective) calculated to confuse, entrap, or entangle in argument
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Rather than keep the peace, he was one of the most captious, especially toward the bosun
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he could be captious, censorious, bullying
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