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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
- To err is human, this is my last spasm of carping about this-I need the pins out of the dolls to hold my pants together. Today In Brian Keene History – Brian Keene
- The only thing Scalzi forgot in his playlet was the constant reader carping that "Famous Author's books used to be so good, I'd buy them hardcover sight unseen, but now he's just crapping out stuff by the numbers, I'll just buy used copies instead... Making Light: "No one goes around suggesting that everyone should become their own autonomous cheesemakers and cheering the death of the cheese industry. Why? Because that would result in a lot of shitty cheese."
- How terrified of dying are we that simply admitting that we're just about halfway to the end of it causes people to burst out in carping statements? Lose Weight Today!
- When the whispering started, she began to shuffle her feet in embarrassment, her combat boots scarping harshly against the linoleum.
- He cannot understand why she's constantly carping at him.
- Official Ballina's hangdog, carping approach was in marked contrast to the approach of organisations such as the Chamber of Commerce, the Ballina street festival committee and Eamon Walsh's Fleadh initiative.
- `Ken intends to cut clean across all your piddling bureaucratic red tape and petty carping. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
- When you ? ? re an optimist, you ? ? re more concerned with problem - solving than with useless carping about issues.
- If carping over this crapola is what we can expect this fall, color me unimpressed. Eric Ferguson Kick Off Today
- Who are they that, carping and quarrelling, in their jesuitic most moderate way, seek to shackle the Patriotic movement? The French Revolution