Carping Definition

kärpĭng
adjective
Tending to carp, or find fault; captious.
Webster's New World
Naggingly critical or complaining.
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verb

Present participle of carp.

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noun

Excessive complaining.

1911 "Oh, stop your carping, Dawn!" I told myself. "You can't expect charming tones, and Oriental do-dads and apple trees in a German boarding-house. — Edna Ferber, Dawn O'Hara, the Girl who Laughed, Chapter 6
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Other Word Forms of Carping

Noun

Singular:
carping
Plural:
carpings

Carping Sentence Examples

  • Justly reproved, I commend any business which encourages the appreciation of Britain 's waterways deserves support, not carping.

  • Wallis having been betrayed originally by his fatal cleverness into the pettiest carping at words, Hobbes had retorted in kind, and then it became a high duty in the other to defend his Latin with great parade of learning and give fresh provocation.

  • His commentary on Don Quixote owes something to John Bowle, and is disfigured by a patronizing, carping spirit; nevertheless it is the most valuable work of its kind, and is still unsuperseded.

  • It contains also a most curious commentary on Desportes, in which Malherbe's minute and carping style of verbal criticism is displayed on the great scale.

  • Justly reproved, I commend any business which encourages the appreciation of Britain's waterways deserves support, not carping.

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Words Starting With

CCACAR

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GNGING

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