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Exceptious   Listen
adjective
Exceptious  adj.  Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious. (Obs.) "At least effectually silence the doubtful and exceptious."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Exceptious" Quotes from Famous Books



... performances were in no way interrupted: every one seemed oblivious of his presence, and absolutely regardless of his wish. In truth, the texture of that salmon-coloured skin could be seen to be aristocratic without a microscope, and the exceptious artizan has an offhand way when contrasts are made painfully strong by an idler of this kind coming, gloved and brushed, into the very den where he is sweating and muddling ...
— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy



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