carped
Example Sentences
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Senior executives carped about Chapek to Disney board members.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026
“You’re no fun anymore,” carped a college buddy I’d once partied with.
From Salon • Dec. 30, 2023
In The New Yorker, the influential and acerbic critic Pauline Kael carped that George Lucas was “in the toy business.”
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022
It was a growth policy on steroids, carped one of the few doubters quoted in any of the coverage, the neighborhood activist John Fox.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2018
Petitot, that miserable crawler who had clogged his efforts for years, who had shared, without deserving, his honours, who had spied on him and carped at him day by day and hour by hour!
From The Long Night by Weyman, Stanley John
