Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Naggingly critical or complaining.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Speech; talk; conversation.
- n. The act of caviling; a cavil; unreasonable criticism or censure.
- Faultfinding; over-critical. Synonyms Caviling, etc. See
captious .
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of carp.
- adj. Pertaining to excessive complaining.
- n. Excessive complaining.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See captious.
WordNet 3.0
- n. persistent petty and unjustified criticism
Examples
“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":”
“Extreme right 28% begin carping about "socialism" in 3 ... 2..1 ...”
“Until then all the carping is nothing more than demanding that we continue to do nothing until the perfect solution is found, which will of course be on the twelfth of never.”
“Until then all the carping is nothing more than demanding that we continue to do nothing until the perfect solution is found, which will of course be on the twelfth ofnever.”
“This is called "carping," because you look like a carp broaching the surface with your mouth desperately agape.”
The Wall Street Journal: When Death Is Merely a Paddle Stroke Away
“Air the discussions on C-SPAN and the ensuing carping from the enemies of Health Care Reform will inevitably derail the process.”
“Now all the carping from the right wing freaks continues.”
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“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?”
“And this whining and carping is not fair to the young men ... who are representing their country admirably and well.”
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“In this way the extravagance of Morry’s dreams match the intolerable constraint he suffers under, just as Nettie’s endless carping is an expression of her desire for Morry, and Elsinore’s fantasies about Fischer are there to balance out her horror of her husband.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘carping’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
zealot, wistful, welter, wary, whimsical, warranted, vortex, vivisection, volatile, vitiate, viscous, visage and 787 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Carp
carp, carping, carpet, pilocarpine, parthenocarpy, carper, basidiocarp, acarpous, apocarpous, ascocarp, Brussels carpet, carpe diem and 104 more...
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NTDW2
yawp, amidships, smug, jounce, fallow, conscionable, polyp, whit, nouveau riche, palatial, encomiastic, exchequer and 182 more...
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gre words
convoluted, deride, melancholy, antagonize, antagonize, deference, portentous, prodigious, ruminate, ineffable, turgid, mossy and 58 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1826 more...
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teeter, headlong, reprobate, canard, ersatz, prevaricate, trenchant, minatory, fatuous, stultify, vitiate, fulminate and 135 more...
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GRE Words
abjure, unswear, state, rescission, indemnification, ab, reny, abnegate, vitiated, vitiate, adumbrated, abash and 378 more...
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inkhorn's Words
inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
bereaved, bitter, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast and 405 more...
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seventhspice's Words
supine, distaff, lest, janissary, articulator, chaos, scrumptious, charlatan, alacrity, papyrus, corollary, funicular and 106 more...
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Eazy E
motley, callous, languid, copious, dubious, contemptible, disparage, sporadic, gratuitous, disillusioned, conflagration, concordance and 99 more...
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GRE vocab
martinet, churlish, polyglot, aplomb, dissembler, histrionics, prevarication, ignominy, impugn, fastidious, trenchant, perfunctory and 155 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Magooosh
impugn, repudiate, sardonic, barnstorm, bemoan, unseemly, cornerstone, noisome, malodorous, retroactively, spuriously, spasmodically and 217 more...
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