About The Word Carping
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Carping
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What's The Definition Of Carping?
[n] persistent petty and unjustified criticism
[adj] quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics" Synonyms | Synonyms for Carping: caviling | critical | faultfinding | nitpicking | pettifogging | quibbling Related Terms | Find terms related to Carping: adverse criticism | animadversion | aspersion | bad notices | bad press | blameful | captious | captiousness | cavil | caviling | censorious | censoriousness | condemnatory | critical | criticism | cynical | damnatory | exception | faultfinding | flak | hairsplitting | hit | home thrust | hostile criticism | hypercritical | hypercriticalness | hypercriticism | imputation | jawing | knock | nagging | niggle | niggling | nit | nit-picking | objurgatory | obloquy | overcritical | overcriticalness | pestering | pettifogging | priggishness | quibble | quibbling | railing | rap | reflection | reproachful | reproachfulness | slam | stricture | swipe | taking exception | trichoschistic | trichoschistism | ultracritical | upbraiding See Also | criticism | unfavorable judgment Carping In Webster's Dictionary \Carp"ing\ (k[add]rp"[i^]ng), a.
Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See {Captious}. --
{Carp"ing*ly}, adv.
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