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Definition

to repeatedly complain — typically about unimportant things

She carps incessantly about political matters and the press.

carps = repeatedly complains about unimportant things

She's always carping about something and it gets me in a bad mood.

carping = repeatedly complaining about unimportant things

Another reason I welcome the change is that Mama's always carping at me, especially at the table.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

carping = repeatedly complaining about unimportant things

Pim has nearly reached the boiling point; Mrs. van D. is lying in bed with a cold, grumbling; Mr. van D. is growing pale without his cigarettes; Dussel, who's having to give up many of his comforts, is carping at everyone; etc., etc. We seem to have run out of luck lately.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

carping = repeatedly complaining

In addition, he bore directly Eliza's nagging and carping attack.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
Hucheloup had invented a capital thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, which he called carpes au gras.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
The Morrison children, coming home from school, would find no aches, no carping, no headache.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
By November Piedmont had evidently tired of my carping and unrelenting bitching about conditions at the school.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
Before those who now, for the sake of the Savage, paid their court to him, Bernard would parade a carping unorthodoxy.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
"Ah, Mr. Macey, you and me are two folks," said Ben, slightly indignant at this carping.
George Eliot -- Silas Marner
And to that end we wish'd your lordship here, To avoid the the the censures of the carping world.
William Shakespeare -- The Life and Death of King Richard III
Sure, sure, such carping is not commendable.
William Shakespeare -- Much Ado About Nothing
Rejoined the Lord Odysseus: "Diomedes, no good flattering me, or carping, either— not before men who know me through and through.
Homer -- The Iliad
Each one held his own course, carping and swearing, without listening to his neighbor.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
How is this? some carping reader exclaims.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
He appeared frail and stupid to me, a man made of dried twigs with a thin, carping voice.
Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
Ellen, by soft-voiced admonition, and Mammy, by constant carping, labored to inculcate in her the qualities that would make her truly desirable as a wife.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
Am I myself to bear a carping critic, A base usurper with a power tyrannic, Such that we can do nothing for diversion Without hearing about that creep's aversion?
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere -- Tartuffe
The Hiroshima players were at first called, in English, the Carps, until he pointed out to the public that the plural for that fish, and for those ballplayers, had no "s."
John Hersey -- Hiroshima
Yet he was in no sense a Separatist; his hospitality took in strangers from every land; the carping Pharisees even accused him of having more than once entertained Samaritans at his table.
Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur

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