carper
Example Sentences
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That's how much of a carper from the sidelines I am.
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2014
It would be churlish to carp that Pavement has erred in excluding "Texas Never Whispers"—and churlishness is among the band's modes—and the carper would have to concede that it was right to include "Debris Slide."
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2010
But the Daily Express' Cecil Smith, often a carper, came and was conquered.
From Time Magazine Archive
More often, however, he carps; and Harvey is really a phi beta carper.
From Time Magazine Archive
A carper might have pointed out that the discussion of the dear old days, when you came to analyse it, was practically a monologue on Mary's part, punctuated with musical 'Yes, yes's' from her companion.
From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
