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carping 音標拼音: [k'ɑrpɪŋ] a. 吹毛求疵的,挑毛病的 吹毛求疵的,挑毛病的 carping n 1: persistent petty and unjustified criticism [ synonym: { faultfinding}, { carping}] Carp \ Carp\ ( k[ aum] rp), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Carped} ( k[ aum] rpt); 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To find fault; to cavil; to censure words or actions without reason or ill- naturedly; -- usually followed by at. [ 1913 Webster] Carping and caviling at faults of manner. -- Blackw. Mag. [ 1913 Webster] And at my actions carp or catch. -- Herbert. [ 1913 Webster]
Carping \ Carp" ing\ ( k[ aum] rp"[ i^] ng), a. Fault- finding; censorious caviling. See { Captious}. -- { Carp" ing* ly}, adv. [ 1913 Webster] 57 Moby Thesaurus words for " carping": 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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