Found 3 items, similar to Carping.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: carping bawel, kebawelan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: carping carping adj : quibbling over insignificant details; “caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders”-Edmund Burke; “her nagging and carping attack”; “thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking”; “a pettifogging lawyer's mind”; “had no patience with quibbling critics” [syn: caviling, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibbling] n : persistent petty and unjustified criticism [syn: faultfinding]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Carping Carp \Carp\ (k[aum]rp), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Carped (k[aum]rpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Carping.] [OE. carpen to say, speak; from Scand. (cf. Icel. karpa to boast), but influenced later by L. carpere to pluck, calumniate.] 1. To talk; to speak; to prattle. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. To find fault; to cavil; to censure words or actions without reason or ill-naturedly; -- usually followed by at. [1913 Webster] Carping and caviling at faults of manner. --Blackw. Mag. [1913 Webster] And at my actions carp or catch. --Herbert. [1913 Webster] Carping \Carp"ing\ (k[aum]rp"[i^]ng), a. Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious. -- Carp"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster] ||