carping

How To Use carping In A Sentence

• One way to counter it is by carping at the limited character of the data.
• 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.
• I want to avoid too carping a tone here.
• 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.