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Carping definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CARPING, ppr. Caviling; captious; censorious.
CARPING, n. The act of caviling; a cavil; unreasonable censure.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: persistent petty and unjustified criticism [syn: faultfinding, carping]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1567 marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism Synonyms: see critical • carpingly adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Carp Carp, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Carped; p. pr. & vb. n. Carping.] [OE. carpen to say, speak; from Scand. (cf. Icel. karpa to boast), but influenced later by L. carpere to pluck, calumniate.] 1. To talk; to speak; to prattle. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. To find fault; to cavil; to censure words or actions without reason or ill-naturedly; -- usually followed by at. Carping and caviling at faults of manner. --Blackw. Mag. And at my actions carp or catch. --Herbert.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Carping Carp"ing (k[add]rp"[i^]ng), a. Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious. -- Carp"ing*ly, adv.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see carp

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. Cavilling, censorious, captious, hypercritical. II. n. Censure, cavil, fault-finding, hyper-criticism, captious criticism.

Moby Thesaurus

adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, blameful, captious, captiousness, cavil, caviling, censorious, censoriousness, condemnatory, critical, criticism, cynical, damnatory, exception, faultfinding, flak, hairsplitting, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercritical, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, jawing, knock, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, objurgatory, obloquy, overcritical, overcriticalness, pestering, pettifogging, priggishness, quibble, quibbling, railing, rap, reflection, reproachful, reproachfulness, slam, stricture, swipe, taking exception, trichoschistic, trichoschistism, ultracritical, upbraiding