Example Sentences

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Even this small credit he awards grudgingly and carpingly.

From The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 by Various

You will never get Mortimer to go," his mother had said carpingly, "but if he once goes he'll stay; Yessney throws almost as much a spell over him as Town does.

From The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki