How do you say “captious” in Vietnamese?

“Captious” in Vietnamese is nguỵ biện (to use sophistry).

Vietnamese words for “captious”

• nguỵ biệnListenverb
  Hanoi [ŋwi˧˨ʔ ʔɓiən˧˨ʔ] · Saigon [ŋwɪj˨˩˨ ʔɓiəŋ˨˩˨]nguỵ heavy biện heavy

  to use sophistry

  for “captious” meaning: That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.

Related Vietnamese words

• xảo tráListenadjective

  devious; cunning; cleverly deceitful

Translations matched from English Wiktionary (translation tables and Vietnamese entries, via kaikki.org; CC BY-SA 4.0) and the NgonNgu English–Vietnamese dictionary, reviewed and edited; examples from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). The Listen button uses your browser's Vietnamese voice.