Carping

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  • adjective. Naggingly critical or complaining.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Faultfinding; over-critical.
  • noun. Speech; talk; conversation.
  • noun. The act of caviling; a cavil; unreasonable criticism or censure.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See captious.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of carp.
  • adjective. Pertaining to excessive complaining.
  • noun. Excessive complaining.
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  • noun. persistent petty and unjustified criticism
    • Word Usage
    "Under his questioning, she offered a sound summation of what's at stake in the October march, as well as responding to carping from the President and Vice-President over the need for progressives to "stop whining" and "buck up":"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    criticism  unfavorable judgment  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    harping  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adverse criticism  animadversion  aspersion  bad notices  bad press  
    variant
    captious  
    verb-stem
    carp  
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