carping
adjective
[ ˈkɑːpɪŋ ]
• difficult to please; critical.
• "she has silenced the carping critics with a successful debut tour"
carp
verb
• complain or find fault continually about trivial matters.
• "I don't want to carp about the way you did it"
Similar:
complain,
cavil,
grumble,
moan,
grouse,
grouch,
whine,
bleat,
quibble,
niggle,
nag,
find fault with,
criticize,
pick on,
censure,
denounce,
condemn,
decry,
disparage,
mither,
twine,
gripe,
beef,
bellyache,
bitch,
nitpick,
pick holes,
split hairs,
sound off,
kick up a fuss,
knock,
whinge,
chunter,
create,
be on at someone,
kvetch,
complaining,
cavilling,
grumbling,
moaning,
grousing,
grouching,
grouchy,
whining,
bleating,
fault-finding,
quibbling,
niggling,
captious,
nagging,
critical,
criticizing,
censorious,
condemnatory,
disparaging,
scathing,
slighting,
reproachful,
deprecatory,
hypercritical,
overcritical,
pedantic,
pass-remarkable,
griping,
bellyaching,
bitching,
nitpicking,
hair-splitting,
picky,
whingeing,
chuntering,
mithering,
kvetching,
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘talk, chatter’): from Old Norse karpa ‘brag’; later influenced by Latin carpere ‘pluck at, slander’.
