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  • past participle of carp.
  • past tense form of carp.

carped



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Senior executives carped about Chapek to Disney board members.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 20, 2026

“You’re no fun anymore,” carped a college buddy I’d once partied with.

From Salon Dec. 30, 2023

It was a growth policy on steroids, carped one of the few doubters quoted in any of the coverage, the neighborhood activist John Fox.

From Seattle Times Aug. 15, 2018

Mr Trump often carped about President Barack Obama's penchant for golf.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2017

In his Meropis and Ancylio, this dramatist is supposed to have carped at Plato; and his comedy founded on the life of Pythagoras, was probably in a similar vein of satire.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop



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