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[ US /ˈkɑɹpɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɑːpɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. persistent petty and unjustified criticism

How To Use carping In A Sentence

  • The juxtaposition of his carping, meticulous fetishizing of cuisine punctilios with that of his abecedarian, pompous-yet-undereducated plodding attempts to guild his prosaic sensibilities with grandiloquent language only serve to expose the charlatan behind the greasy, smacking lips and cheap, brass-plated tongue. Rouge
  • Among those of us who look on, a few will be curmudgeonly - carping at inaccuracies or misrepresentations of the original.
  • One way to counter it is by carping at the limited character of the data.
  • It might seem carping to find fault in such a dazzling and fully realized novel.
  • He should continue building on this fine work rather than carping on about injustices that don't exist.
  • And there's always a lot of sniping and carping in the newsroom and by the water cooler.
  • And why exactly are we carping about this? The Sun
  • Are bloggers becoming a thriving alternative to the mainstream media or just a collection of carping critics who live to slam the news outlets, anchors and reporters they don't like?
  • Under his questioning, she offered a sound summation of what's at stake in the October march, as well as responding to carping from the President and Vice-President over the need for progressives to "stop whining" and "buck up": Art Levine: Labor-Backed Oct. 2 Rally Competing With Jon Stewart, Pro-Corporate Senate
  • He cannot understand why she's constantly carping at him.
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