carping
11carping — 1) nagging or complaining, petty or unjustified criticism, quibbling over insignificant details; nothing to do with carp (Cyprinus carpio) 2) adjective used by anglers in reference to anything to do with fishing for carp (Cyprinus carpio) …
12carping — Synonyms and related words: adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, blameful, captious, captiousness, cavil, caviling, censorious, censoriousness, condemnatory, critical, criticism, cynical, damnatory, exception,… …
13carping — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. faultfinding, nagging, caviling; see critical 2 , sarcastic , severe 1 , 2 . See Synonym Study at critical . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Inclined to judge too severely: captious, censorious, critical,… …
14carping — carp·ing || kÉ‘Ëpɪŋ adj. tending to complain, nagging, fault finding kÉ‘Ëp n. freshwater fish v. complain, nag, worry …
15carping — I. a. Cavilling, censorious, captious, hypercritical. II. n. Censure, cavil, fault finding, hyper criticism, captious criticism …
16carping — adj faultfinding, nagging, caviling, captious; scoffing, impugning, Inf. picky; hard to please, hypercritical, critical, biting, bitter, cutting, belittling, deprecating; chiding, reproachful, censorious, disapprobatory, derogatory; reprehensive …
17carping — carp•ing [[t]ˈkɑr pɪŋ[/t]] adj. characterized by or inclined to petty or fussy faultfinding • Etymology: 1275–1325 carp′ing•ly, adv …
18carping — noun persistent petty and unjustified criticism (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑faultfinding • Derivationally related forms: ↑faultfinding (for: ↑faultfinding) • Hypernyms: ↑ …
19Carpingly — Carping Carp ing (k[aum]rp [i^]ng), a. Fault finding; censorious caviling. See {Captious}. {Carp ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] || …
20Captious — Cap tious, a. [F. captieux, L. captiosus. See {Caption}.] 1. Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. [1913 Webster] A captious and suspicious age. Stillingfleet. [1913 Webster] I am… …
