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US
/ˈkɑɹpɪŋ/
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[ UK /kˈɑːpɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɑːpɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- 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.