Carping Synonyms and Antonyms

kärpĭng
Inclined to judge too severely
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. captious
  2. censorious
  3. critical
  4. faultfinding
  5. hypercritical
  6. overcritical
Inclined to adverse criticism
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. nagging
  2. caviling
Persistent petty and unjustified criticism
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. faultfinding

Words Related to Carping

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Carping Sentence Examples

  • Justly reproved, I commend any business which encourages the appreciation of Britain 's waterways deserves support, not carping.

  • Wallis having been betrayed originally by his fatal cleverness into the pettiest carping at words, Hobbes had retorted in kind, and then it became a high duty in the other to defend his Latin with great parade of learning and give fresh provocation.

  • His commentary on Don Quixote owes something to John Bowle, and is disfigured by a patronizing, carping spirit; nevertheless it is the most valuable work of its kind, and is still unsuperseded.

  • It contains also a most curious commentary on Desportes, in which Malherbe's minute and carping style of verbal criticism is displayed on the great scale.

  • Justly reproved, I commend any business which encourages the appreciation of Britain's waterways deserves support, not carping.

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