using or showing judgment as to action or practical expediency; discreet, prudent, or politic:
Apt to notice and make much of trivial faults or defects; faultfinding; difficult to please.
CAPTIOUSLY
CAPTIOUSNESS
kap-shuhs
someone going against traditional beliefs
1. moral deterioration
2. excessive self-indulgence
3. The act or process of falling into an inferior condition or state; deterioration; decay:
to speak harmful untruths about; speak evil of; slander; defame:
a person who seeks to overturn by violence all constituted forms and institutions of society and government, with no purpose of establishing any other system of order in the place of that destroyed.
c.1350, hampren "to surround, imprison, confine," later "to pack in a container," of unknown origin, possibly from hamper (n.), or somehow connected to M.E. hamelian "to maim." The noun meaning "things important for a ship but in the way at certain times" (1835) is from Fr. hamper "to impede."
hamper
"large basket," 1316, contraction of Anglo-Fr. hanaper (Anglo-L. hanepario), from O.Fr. hanepier "case for holding a large goblet or cup," from hanap "goblet," from Frank. (cf. O.S. hnapp "cup, bowl;" O.H.G. hnapf).