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carping

/kahr-ping/US // ˈkɑr pɪŋ //UK // (ˈkɑːpɪŋ) //

争吵,捣乱,捣蛋,跳舞

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by fussy or petulant faultfinding; querulous: carping criticism.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : petty faultfinding.

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Examples

  • “All he gets from Congress is negativism and carping,” says Dallek.

  • He was no carping presence, talking about how things were done in his day.

  • The video carping about government moochers may well have sealed it.

  • Three months ago, what was on display was the well-developed British talent for carping, sneering, and nitpicking.

  • The constant carping that Roberts has been placing his thumb on the scale of justice “must bother him,” says Lithwick.

  • But he was quite right in carping at her, for fortune, like other fickle jades, is more likely to be true if steadily abused.

  • And to the author of the play it seems as though every person in that audience is a carping critic!

  • His patience had been worn threadbare by much carping and criticism, and he answered her letter in that given below.

  • "You don't know what is polite," cried Eva, greatly shocked at this carping spirit in the presence of a hard-worked host.

  • I had learned to walk unruffled in the face of the most carping, suspicious and the fishiest of these batteries.