carp
verb (used without object)
to find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably; be niggling in criticizing; cavil.
carper
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a word derived from
carp.
Example Sentences
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That's how much of a carper from the sidelines I am.
From The Guardian ● May 31, 2014
It would be churlish to carp that Pavement has erred in excluding "Texas Never Whispers"—and churlishness is among the band's modes—and the carper would have to concede that it was right to include "Debris Slide."
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2010
More often, however, he carps; and Harvey is really a phi beta carper.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the Daily Express' Cecil Smith, often a carper, came and was conquered.
From Time Magazine Archive
But she was civil even as she sighed, and he would have been a carper who complained.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
