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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: carping (0.01349 detik)
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.
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2. To find fault; to cavil; to censure words or actions
without reason or ill-naturedly; -- usually followed by
at.
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Carping and caviling at faults of manner. --Blackw.
Mag.
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And at my actions carp or catch. --Herbert.
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Carping
\Carp"ing\ (k[aum]rp"[i^]ng), a.
Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See
Captious. --
Carp"ing*ly, adv.
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