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Carping

Carping Meaning & Definition
Carping Definition And Meaning

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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