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  • present participle of carp.
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carping

[kahr-ping] / ˈkɑr pɪŋ /


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Carping about the new show only gives it more publicity.

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2018

Carping comes easily when a play leaves you cold.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2016

Carping against the government can now be heard in posh high-rise apartments by Rio's Ipanema Beach, where owners have grown accustomed to affluence now and more tomorrow.

From Time Magazine Archive

Carping criticism is easy; any person can indulge in it; but only a statesman can show what is to be done to meet a pressing difficulty.

From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.

Carping critics have, indeed, declared the Tombs to be too luxurious, declaring that habitual criminals enjoy a stay at the prison and actually commit crime so that they may enjoy some of its hotel-like comforts.

From The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life by Klein, Charles




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