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   carping

   /ˈkɑːpɪŋ/

   adjective

   • 1. continually complaining or finding fault about trivial matters; difficult to please: "she has silenced the carping critics with a successful debut tour"

   noun

   • 1. continual complaining or finding fault about trivial matters: "he did not enjoy the constant carping of reviewers"

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   What does carping mean?

   • I had learned to walk unruffled in the face of the most carping, suspicious and the fishiest of these batteries. Carping definition: characterized by fussy or petulant faultfinding; querulous. See examples of CARPING used in a sentence.

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   What does carp mean?

   • Get Word of the Day daily email! The meaning of CARP is to find fault or complain querulously. How to use carp in a sentence.

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   How do you write a carping sentence?

   • We welcome feedback: report an example sentence to the Collins team. Read more… "Well you were carping about being invisible on the way up. She did not want to return to her chambers, was in no mood to put up with Blanche's carping.

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   Is carping a petty and unjustified criticism?

   • Carping is petty and unjustified criticism that just won’t stop. People who find fault with you at every turn, who appreciate nothing and complain, complain, complain, are carping. Enough already!

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   What is a carping level of criticism?

   • To criticize further would be carping. At a carping level of criticism, it must be said that the absence of an index, or proper referencing, makes both searching, and further research, difficult. When one considers the enormity of the problem, the petty and carping criticisms that have been made during the debate recede into insignificance.

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   What will the final effect of carping be?

   • It's unclear what the final effect of all this carping will be. It can be hard for a new leader to deal with carping from the sidelines. Despite all the carping, the project will go forward. She shrugged off the carping comments, saying: "We're not bothered ". We just ignore the carping critics and get on with the job.

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   Carping is the act of complaining all the time about matters that are not important, or a person who does this. Learn more about the meaning, pronunciation and usage of carping with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.

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     CARPING meaning: 1. the act of complaining all the time...

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   Carping is an adjective that means marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism. Learn more about its synonyms, examples, word history, and usage from Merriam-Webster dictionary.

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   Carping is petty and unjustified criticism that just won’t stop. People who find fault with you at every turn, who appreciate nothing and complain, complain, complain, are carping.

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   Carping means being fussy or petulant in finding faults or complaining. It can be used as an adjective or a noun. See the origin, derived forms, and usage examples of carping.

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   Carping means tending to make petty complaints or fault-finding. Learn how to use this adjective in British and American English, with synonyms, pronunciation, and sentences.

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   Carping means tending to make petty complaints or fault-finding. Learn how to use this word in sentences, find synonyms and translations in different languages, and play a word challenge game.

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   Carping is the act of complaining all the time about matters that are not important, or a person who does so. Learn more about the word, its pronunciation and usage with examples from the Cambridge Dictionary.