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captiously

captiously adverb: in a captious manner.

Adverb

captiously (comparative more captiously, superlative most captiously)

  1. In a captious manner.

Forms of captiously

comparativemore captiously
superlativemost captiously

Origin of captiously

From captious + -ly.

Questions about captiously

What does captiously mean?
Captiously means in a captious manner.
What part of speech is captiously?
Captiously is an adverb.

Words near captiously in the dictionary

  1. captionings
  2. captionless
  3. captionlessness
  4. captions
  5. captious
  6. captiously
  7. captiousness
  8. captiousnesses
  9. captivance
  10. captivances
  11. captivate

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