carping
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8.6
- noun
- /ˈkɑːrpɪŋ/
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critica
- The teacher was tired of the constant carping from students over minor assignments.
- carping critics
- constant carping
- carping criticism
Examples
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We're in the reality-based camp; we can engage each other frankly and accurately, without any of this carping.
Blog text (10) -
And if it is legal, then there is no excuse for carping about it.
Blog text (10) -
Get used to it, because no amount of carping by fans will have any impact.
Blog text (9) -
The constant carping by the media is what turns voters off.
Blog text (9) -
I read a lot of carping and criticism against the church out there in the God-blogosphere.
Blog text (18) -
Such comments no doubt seem like mere carping, or even scapegoating.
Blog text (2) -
It turns out that, despite all the carping, he enjoys being consulted.
Fiction book (1999) -
It's because of petty bickering, sniping, carping, grousing, and infighting like this.
Blog text (11) -
Museveni has dismissed all complaints thus far as carping from "unpatriotic and backward bureaucrats."
Academic text (1993) -
You know, all these carping questions are merely the expression of your own jealousy, just as you've always been jealous of any woman I've ever shown any interest in.
Synonyms
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3.5
A habit of always saying you are unhappy about things
1
7.6
A habit of always finding small mistakes in other people
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4.6
Small unkind complaints about unimportant things that do not help
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4.8
A kind of complaining that sounds annoying and childish in a high voice
A habit of finding small faults in everything
Saying the same small complaints again and again
A habit of complaining often
Antonyms
How Critical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word carping comes from the old verb carp, which meant 'to complain' or 'find fault' and suggested someone picking at small things like loose threads. So carping today means constant, petty criticism that keeps pointing out tiny mistakes.