[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

carp \carp\ kaumrp, v. i. imp.  p. p. carped
   kaumrpt; 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.
      1913 webster

   2. to find fault; to cavil; to censure words or actions
      without reason or ill-naturedly; -- usually followed by
      at.
      1913 webster

            carping and caviling at faults of manner. --blackw.
                                                  mag.
      1913 webster

            and at my actions carp or catch.      --herbert.
      1913 webster
see also:
carped carping 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

carping \carp"ing\ kaumrp"i^ng, a.
   fault-finding; censorious caviling. see captious. --
   carp"ingly, adv.
   1913 webster
see also:
captious carp"ingly 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
caviling nitpicking pettifogging quibbling faultfinding 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

57 moby thesaurus words for "carping":
   adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices,
   bad press, blameful, captious, captiousness, cavil, caviling,
   censorious, censoriousness, condemnatory, critical, criticism,
   cynical, damnatory, exception, faultfinding, flak, hairsplitting,
   hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercritical,
   hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, jawing, knock,
   nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, objurgatory, obloquy,
   overcritical, overcriticalness, pestering, pettifogging,
   priggishness, quibble, quibbling, railing, rap, reflection,
   reproachful, reproachfulness, slam, stricture, swipe,
   taking exception, trichoschistic, trichoschistism, ultracritical,
   upbraiding

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