Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Naggingly critical or complaining.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Faultfinding; over-critical.
- noun Speech; talk; conversation.
- noun The act of caviling; a cavil; unreasonable criticism or censure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See
captious .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
carp . - adjective Pertaining to excessive
complaining . - noun
Excessive complaining .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun persistent petty and unjustified criticism
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Examples
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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.
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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":
Art Levine: Labor-Backed Oct. 2 Rally Competing With Jon Stewart, Pro-Corporate Senate Art Levine 2010
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Extreme right 28% begin carping about "socialism" in 3 ... 2..1 ...
Biden announces deal with hospitals on health care reform 2009
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Air the discussions on C-SPAN and the ensuing carping from the enemies of Health Care Reform will inevitably derail the process.
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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":
Art Levine: Labor-Backed Oct. 2 Rally Competing With Jon Stewart, Pro-Corporate Senate Art Levine 2010
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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":
Art Levine: Labor-Backed Oct. 2 Rally Competing With Jon Stewart, Pro-Corporate Senate Art Levine 2010
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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.
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This is called "carping," because you look like a carp broaching the surface with your mouth desperately agape.
When Death Is Merely a Paddle Stroke Away Michael J. Ybarra 2011
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Now all the carping from the right wing freaks continues.
Who’s Cooperating in the Blagojevich Investigation? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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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?
Lose Weight Today! 2005
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