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

I am ashamed of so ignorant a carper, who doth not know that an epithet in tragedy is very often no other than an expletive.

From The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes Volume 12 by Saintsbury, George