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单词 carping
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carping

"Well you were carping about being invisible on the way up.She did not want to return to her chambers, was in no mood to put up with Blanche's carping.`Ken intends to cut clean across all your piddling bureaucratic red tape and petty carping.

Synonyms of 'carping'

fault-finding, critical, nagging, picky
More Synonyms of carping
(adjective) 
They deserve recognition, not carping criticism.
Synonyms
fault-finding
critical
He has apologized for critical remarks he made about the referee.
nagging
He tried to ignore the nagging voice in the back of his mind.
picky (informal)
Everyone knows children are picky eaters.
nit-picking (informal)
Perfectionists are fussy, nit-picking types who worry about every little detail.
hard to please
cavilling
hypercritical
I tend to be hypercritical of my own performance.
captious
nit-picky (informal)

Additional synonyms

in the sense of captious
Definition
tending to make trivial criticisms
Synonyms
fault-finding,
critical,
carping,
nagging,
disparaging,
deprecating,
nit-picking (informal),
censorious,
cavilling,
hypercritical
in the sense of critical
Definition
fault-finding or disparaging
He has apologized for critical remarks he made about the referee.
Synonyms
disparaging,
disapproving,
scathing,
derogatory,
nit-picking (informal),
censorious,
cavilling,
fault-finding,
captious,
carping,
niggling,
nit-picky (informal)
in the sense of hypercritical
Definition
excessively critical
I tend to be hypercritical of my own performance.
Synonyms
fault-finding,
carping,
fussy,
niggling,
censorious,
finicky,
cavilling,
pernickety (informal),
captious,
overcritical,
hairsplitting,
overscrupulous,
overexacting

Nearby words of
carping

  • carp
  • carpenter
  • carpet
  • carping
  • carriage
  • carry
  • carry on

Related terms of
carping

  • carp

Synonyms of 'carping'

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