Adj. 1. smarmy - unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments"
Synonyms: buttery, fulsome, oleaginous, unctuous, soapy, oily
Adj. 1. captious - tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"
Synonyms: faultfinding
eristic - A person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy.
Synonyms: controversialist, disputant, debater
Usage: He was a philosopher of the eristic sort, whose greatest pleasure was in tearing down the arguments of others.
