Translation for "captious" to spanish

Captious

adjective

• capcioso
• criticón
• reparón

Translation examples

capcioso adjective

The President may ban the asking of questions or the giving of answers to an already posed question, if this is not allowed (if this concerns a leading or captious question — article 211) or if it does not concern the case.
El Presidente puede prohibir las preguntas o las respuestas a una pregunta ya planteada, si esto no está permitido (si se refiere a una cuestión confusa o capciosa, artículo 211) o si no guarda relación con la causa.

79. Ms. Aghajanian (Armenia), also speaking in exercise of the right of reply, said that the allusion made by Azerbaijan to supposed military aggression by Armenia was captious.
La Sra. Aghjanian (Armenia), haciendo uso de su derecho a contestar, dice que la mención hecha por Azerbaiyán de una supuesta agresión militar de Armenia es totalmente capciosa.

On many occasions they make captious questions on whether they like to work and they normally answer in a positive way, because, even though a person is seeking protection, it does not mean that he does not want or can work.
Muchas veces de manera capciosa les preguntan si quieren trabajar y normalmente responden de manera afirmativa, porque, aunque una persona busque protección, no significa que no desee o pueda trabajar.

Not I want them to interrupt the captious questions.
No quiero que interrumpan las preguntas capciosas.

Oh, yeah. "Captious."
Oh, sí. "Capcioso".

Captious reasoning?
—¿Un razonamiento capcioso?

I would seem captious were I to complain.
—Parecería capcioso que me quejara de algo.

But many of the journal entries were jejune and captious.
En cambio, muchas de las anotaciones eran aburridas y capciosas.

for his first six years he was fretful, captious and melancholy.
Durante sus primeros seis años fue displicente, capcioso y melancólico.

He was from Omaha and much more talented at his sketchbook than I, but utterly foolhardy and captious.
Era de Omaha y tenía mucho más talento que yo como dibujante, pero era extremadamente temerario y capcioso.

After the captious atmosphere of the New York balls, McKenna was pleasantly surprised by the relaxed quality of this gathering.
Conociendo la atmósfera capciosa de los bailes de Nueva York, a McKenna le sorprendió agradablemente el aire desenfadado de aquella concurrencia.

"I wish you'd learn to put the caps back on things properly when you're finished using them," she said in a tone she fully meant to sound captious.
—Me gustaría que aprendieras a tapar bien las cosas cuando has terminado de usarlas —dijo en un tono intencionadamente capcioso.

When we were lying on the mat at dawn, I liked to ask her half-captious questions to see if I could make her fall into remembering or looking ahead.
Me gustaba, acostados en el petate al amanecer, hacerle preguntas medio capciosas, a ver si la hacía caer en el recuerdo o en la previsión.

This uneasiness was always present in Jamuga’s face, when he spoke or turned his eyes in the direction of his beloved anda, and he tried to hide it in an assumption of indulgent superiority, or, at times, in captious irritability.
Esta intranquilidad estaba siempre presente en el semblante de Jamuga cuando hablaba o miraba a su querido amigo, y trataba de ocultarla asumiendo una indulgente superioridad, o a veces con capciosa irritabilidad.

criticón adjective

It was for Srole, the associate and stooge, to deal with captious Citrine.
Correspondió a Srole, el socio y el eco, tratar con Citrine el criticón.