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Meanings of carping in English
Spanish
crítica maliciosa Synonyms
Examples for "quibbling"
Examples for "quibbling"
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But he didn't want to complicate an already delicate situation by quibbling.
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There's no Gallagher-esque quibbling rivalry, nor does one brother take obvious charge.
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Your quibbling is childish and unbecoming to a man of your age.
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This was no time for quibbling-notime for nice shadings of propriety.
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Against Arsenal, Mourinho was probably alone in quibbling with the result.
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In light of an incredible 2014 for Seattle however, this is nitpicking.
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Annoyed and frustrated, Ryan had passed the time nitpicking everything I said.
3
But Eco manages to make these sorts of nitpicking interludes progressively beguiling.
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This would all seem like nitpicking if the stakes weren't so high.
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In a sense he is right, but it's the nitpicking debater talking here.
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He believed in fair play and despised sharp practice and pettifogging tricks.
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Jack considered him more of a pettifogging bureaucrat than an intelligence officer.
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We can't help it; we put the pettifogging first and the people second.
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The issues involved are too big and far-reaching for pettifogging methods.
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The opposition did not propose to waste effort on pettifogging preliminaries.
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Nothing is said so simply that it cannot be distorted by caviling.
2
There will be no caviling at the satisfying antiquity of Fuenterrabia.
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These are palpable facts, about which, as facts, there can be no caviling.
4
You are a captious, caviling, carping, crabbed, contentious, cantankerous chap.
5
How fond she was of caviling at Christian lives!
Usage of carping in English
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In the Presidential debate Carter came across as carping, pinched and humorless.
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No carping: glad to share the spotlight with the newspaper of record.
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Priestley was a West Yorkshireman, built for a certain kind of carping.
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Their carping, quarrelsome attitude had taken all the pleasure from knowing them.
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Shall we never have done with this carping at people who succeed?
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One class of people stands for carping criticism; the other, for constructive attempts.
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Dieckmann seems aware that Eliza can seem a bit self-indulgent in her carping.
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They are always in a critical, carping, superior frame of mind.
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Any temporary relief from the carping tyranny of Brown was welcome.
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Though I am writing so carping a note, I admire the article thoroughly.
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After carping at the chair umpire, he committed two unforced errors.
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Hamid, I've had just about enough of your second-guessing and carping.
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They all admitted, even the most carping, that Maria was pretty.
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I do not want to be carping on him like an old fishwife.
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Forget the carping about a lack of trophies; Pochettino has done an extraordinary job.
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They particularly don't want to hear Coalition MPs carping about Labor and the Greens.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Carping through the time
Carping across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common