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

No chronic carper, Mr. Simmonds found much good to report to British airmen: � England should learn from the U. S. the secret of high-speed, high-frequency schedules.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such a churlish carper will never picke out the best, but be alway ready to blame the worst.

From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh