to carp
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7.9
- verb
- /kɑrp/
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quejarse (de)
- It's easy to carp about the details instead of focusing on the bigger picture.
- carping critics
- whining and carping
- carp and criticize
Narcissistic partners are often jealous of their partners and may carp on the smallest thing.
- Narcissistic partners are often jealous of their partners and may carp on the smallest thing.
- I just think that, you know, Beyoncé is I'm a feminist, but I'm also going to carp about my, you know, my, you know, my, my husband's lovers and go so forth.
Examples
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I have, in the past, carped about the length of your posts.
Blog text (31) -
And I put it to the Right Honorable Gentleman opposite that this is not a day for him to carp, find fault, demand inquiries.
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I think it would have been better to get some sort of explanation from them before carping in this space.
Blog text (5) -
Some have carped that I rely too often on this narrative device.
Fiction book (2002) -
Narcissistic partners are often jealous of their partners and may carp on the smallest thing.
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I'd have enjoyed her far more if she, on her own, were more engaging and less carping.
Blog text (7) -
Newspapers there have for decades carped at cosy 'eurocrats', as they call Europe's civil servants.
Blog text (3) -
All through the months leading up to the election, conservative pundits carped over the fact that polls supposedly oversampled Democrats.
Blog text (20) -
My point is not to carp at a brilliant analyst's logical inconsistencies but to underscore the conversational character of political contention.
Academic text (1998) -
Instead of helping to solve the problem, they just continued to carp about the minor issues.
Synonyms
59
8.4
To complain in an angry way about something
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5.6
To complain repeatedly about small things
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7.4
To complain about small unimportant things
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8.1
To complain in an annoying way about small things
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9.9
To complain often about small things
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9.9
To complain about small unimportant details
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7.3
To complain in a small, repeated way
To raise small objections to delay or block progress
Antonyms
Compounds
A small European freshwater fish like a goldfish that can live in water with little oxygen
- Specialized
A type of carp with few large shiny scales that people keep in ponds for food or decoration
- Specialized
A fish from another place that spreads quickly and harms local plants and animals
How Complaining
Surface Forms
Etymology
Carp as a verb comes from an old word meaning 'to find fault' or 'to talk on and on', so to carp is to keep complaining about small, unimportant things.