Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CARPING
CARPING
Definitions of CARPING
- complaining excessively.
- Excessive complaining.
- inflection of carp
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using CARPING in a Sentence
- It is sometimes claimed that Wagner caricatured Hanslick in his opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg as the carping critic Beckmesser (whose name was originally to be Veit Hanslich).
- In September 2012, Brownlee accused residents in Christchurch's newly created TC3 zone of "carping and moaning" for comments they made in a survey conducted by the main local newspaper.
- His commentary on Don Quixote owes something to John Bowle, and was described in the 1911 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica as "disfigured by a patronizing, carping spirit"; nevertheless it is a valuable work of its kind for its time.
- Having been shipwrecked once it is possible I have a more fellow feeling for the sailor than for the carping sentimentalist who sits at his desk and writes feelingly of localities of which he knows nothing.
- He could not pretend that all the men and women of Dublin were heroic martyrs to a magnificent cause; he recognized sardonically that, while some went out to orate, to fight and to die, others dived from the shelter of their tenement warrens to the shelter of their pubs, bickering and carping, stooping to a bit of plunder when they had the chance.
- Though Ed occasionally capitulates to his wife's browbeating behaviors and his mother-in-law's carping, he has no qualms about exploding at and bickering with them both, although it only gets him into shouting matches and heated altercations with Mama and Eunice, who quickly move into bickering with each other in the process.
- Though he was wont to shield hunting from the "carping speaches of the enemies thereof", he warned his readers against using the sport as "an occupation to spend therein daies, moneths, and yeres, to the hinderance of the service of God, her maistie or your Countrey".
- Clapt up by a Clowne of the Towne in this last Restraint, having little else to doe to make a little use of his fickle Muse, and careless of Carping.
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