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/ˈkɑː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)/ · noun
A person who habitually carps, who talks too much and regularly finds fault..
Shame not these woods, / By putting on the cunning of a carper.
Come, let my carper to his life now look, And find there darker lines than in my book He findeth any […]
He censures everything, this zealous carper.
What is this sort of piece going to do when confronted with row upon row of coldly sober carpers?
[…] Lady Tipper […] shook her head in wounded defiance of all the carpers and whiners.
Use carper when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Carper means A person who habitually carps, who talks too much and regularly finds fault..
Common synonyms include critic.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Shame not these woods, / By putting on the cunning of a carper.
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