Carping
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Carping is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of carp.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of carp.
More Meanings
- complaining excessively.
- Excessive complaining.
Example Sentences
However, since there are 488 pages in all for a bargain price of a guinea one must not be too carping.
“Oh, stop your carping, Dawn!” I told myself. “You can't expect charming tones, and Oriental do-dads and apple trees in a German boarding-house.”
Written as a ripost to Samuel Constant’s short story "Le Mari sentimental", in which the husband is driven to despair and ultimately suicide by his carping wife, Mistress Henly begins with an account of the wife’s reading of the Constant story and how as a reader she links the text of imagination to the realities of her own life.
Word Forms
- carpings
Synonyms for carping
Depending on context, synonyms include critical, faultfinding, pettifogging, nitpicking, caviling, quibbling.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include caviling, quibbling, pettifogging, faultfinding, critical, nitpicking.
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