- present participle of carp.
carping
Example Sentences
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“Worrying about 20 people on his left carping on Twitter is not how he should be living,” Rosen said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
Believe me, I’m completely aware that I sound like a Scrooge, a buzzkill harping and carping about innocuous movies that are meant to be little more than background noise while people scroll on their phones.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2024
After enough of his students’ carping, however, Hayes decided to put the snakes to the test.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024
“A lot of discourse around it. A lot of carping back and forth. A lot of anger. A lot of commentary,” Stewart said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
The Morrison children, coming home from school, would find no aches, no carping, no headache.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing carping
Much Ado About Nothing
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