I found " Origin of Very Good, Sir ! " which quotes the OED, which itself gives this quotation from " FRANK MILDMAY or The Naval Officer " by CAPTAIN MARRYAT, London 1829 by way of explanation; " " He was very particular and captious when not properly addressed.
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Smith continues : It is incidentally a gratification to many whose sense of justice has been outraged by the captious criticisms of those with neither knowledge nor candour to comprehend existing conditions, to see that Mr . Conger has not hesitated to take the responsibility for his own advice consistently given to American citizens acting in times of storm and stress.
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"To make women attend a separate class, for which they have to pay, we believe, much higher fees than usual, and then argue that they are out of the pale of competition because they do so, is, indeed, too like the captious schoolmaster who first sent a boy into the corner and then whipped him for not being in his seat ."
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These edits were individual, honest attempts to improve the article spaced out over several days . The " by sceptics of anthropogenic climate change " clause has been repeatedly contested on the talkpage by many different users ( e . g ., a short scroll through the current talkpage and recent archive yields the following sections : [ http : / / en . wikipedia . org / wiki / Talk : Climatic _ Research _ Unit _ hacking _ incident # Captious _ Introduction, [ http : / / en . wikipedia . org / wiki / Talk : Climatic _ Research _ Unit _ hacking _ incident / Archive _ 20 # I _ found _ a _ reputable _ citation ), and is contradicted by sources discussed in the article in WP : LEAD.
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