carper
Example Sentences
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That's how much of a carper from the sidelines I am.
From The Guardian • May 31, 2014
It would be churlish to carp that Pavement has erred in excluding "Texas Never Whispers"—and churlishness is among the band's modes—and the carper would have to concede that it was right to include "Debris Slide."
From Slate • Mar. 19, 2010
But the Daily Express' Cecil Smith, often a carper, came and was conquered.
From Time Magazine Archive
More often, however, he carps; and Harvey is really a phi beta carper.
From Time Magazine Archive
A carper might have said that Eddy was the least bit vague on the subject of the dear old days.
From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
