Meaning of CARPING
| Pronunciation: | | 'kârping
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- [n] persistent petty and unjustified criticism
- [adj] quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics"
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CARPING is a 7 letter word that starts with C. |
| | Synonyms: | | caviling, critical, faultfinding, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibbling |
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| | See Also: | | criticism, unfavorable judgment | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Carp"ing\ (k[add]rp"[i^]ng), a.
Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See {Captious}. --
{Carp"ing*ly}, adv.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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