He was captiously pedantic.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : He could never praise without adding a captious remark. ,captious questions.    From Dictionary.com. 

The other point in this paragraph is that I "captiously" called the content a learned article.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters] Reference

Some captiously cavil, that more acuteness is now found in many other animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference

For, say what you would, she was certainly acting very unfairly and captiously in all this.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Tragedy] Reference

Cassy shook her head captiously as she pulled out a half-dozen napkins from the holder and blotted up the spilled juice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Invasion]

Some state judges so captiously disputed the constitutionality of various military laws that the writ of habeas corpus had to be suspended.31.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference

"A little too fond," said Mr. Featherstone, captiously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlemarch] Reference

"A curious question to ask," said the captain, captiously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facing the World] Reference

"I don't know anything of the kind," retorted Rorie captiously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vixen, Volume II.] Reference

W. Pen, he seemed to take these words very captiously and angrily, which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference

Study her as captiously as you would, you could find no flaw in this jewel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vixen, Volume I.] Reference

They are questions captiously embracing all the main Documents seized on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

"It's no use your talking of fate in that way, Violet," retorted her mother captiously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vixen, Volume III.] Reference

"Dear, dear me!" exclaimed Mrs. Sheldon captiously, "you are really a most extraordinary girl.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlotte's Inheritance] Reference

This did not, however, prevent him from noticing the change in her position, and captiously resenting it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crusade of the Excelsior] Reference

Some inquiries were made about the chief's health: he shook his head captiously, and inquired our errand.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Footsteps in East Africa] Reference

Observing Pache make the sign of the cross after mumbling his morning prayer, Chouteau captiously growled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Downfall] Reference

Yet all this did not, as Castlereagh captiously pretended, prove our neutrality to be other than strict and honest.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6)] Reference

"Where's Nurse?" the old man murmured, with excessive feebleness, his voice captiously rising to a shrill complaint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clayhanger] Reference

He paused and looked Nat up and down captiously, as one might appraise the points of a horse of quality put up for sale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortune Hunter] Reference

And we shall so far encourage contradiction as to promise no disturbance, or re - oppose any pen, that shall fallaciously or captiously refute us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation] Reference

Professor Woodhouse, the Plumian Professor, was present, and behaved so captiously that some members met afterwards to consider how order could be maintained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography]

This our Saviour speaks, because that, which occasioned this discourse concerning the resurrection, was a question moved by the Sadducees concerning a woman that had seven husbands in her life-time; upon which they captiously asked our.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 08.] Reference

When the Major, on joining her, made some commonplace enquiry relative to her health, she answered him captiously, that whatever might be the state of her health, she had not, at least, injured it by rambling on secret excursions at midnight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stella of the North, or the Foundling of the Ship] Reference

Any one else want any of this? "he inquired captiously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On] Reference

We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment's inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuasion]

"Now, see here, Maloney," he began, captiously, "you fellows seem to think you can cut up any kind of row, and expect me to pull you out of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cabbages and Kings] Reference

Mr. Snivel exchanges a wink with the Judge, points his thumb over his left shoulder, and says, captiously: "I always had an implacable hatred of that old thief.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference

It cannot be captiously described as mere spin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sidney Blumenthal: How Bush Rules: Bush's Radicalism is Leading to a GOP Crackup] Reference

"Yes, she might," replied my Sheldon, captiously; "but then, you see, the probability is that she wasn't.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of Prey] Reference

We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuasion] Reference

"It also explains to me why Burgsdorf and his men have taken up their abode here, and frequently talk so captiously and insolently when excited by wine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of the Great Elector] Reference

Vulkan asked, captiously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral In Berlin]