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carpingadjective given to making or expressing unfavorable judgments about thingsa peevish and carping old woman who is not a favorite at the nursing home captious, caviling(or cavilling), critical, faultfinding, hypercritical, judgmental, overcritical, rejective discerning, discriminating, judiciousdemanding, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy, nitpicky, particular, pickypettifogging, quibblingharsh, merciless, uncharitable, unforgiving uncritical undiscriminatingundemanding, unfussycharitable, forgiving to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomelysomeone who carps and whines about everything is a pain beefing, bellyaching, bitching, bleating, caterwauling, complaining, crabbing, croaking, fussing, griping, grizzling, grouching, grousing, growling, grumbling, grumping, hollering, inveighing, keening, kicking, kvetching, maundering(chiefly British), moaning, murmuring, muttering, nagging, repining, screaming, squawking, squealing, wailing, whimpering, whinging(or whingeing, British), whining, yammering, yawping(or yauping), yowling objecting (to), protesting, quarreling (with)(or quarrelling (with))caviling(or cavilling), quibblingfretting, stewing, worryingblubbering, crying, sobbingbemoaning, bewailing, deploring, lamenting kicking up a fuss crowing, delighting, rejoicing accepting, bearing, countenancing, enduring, taking, toleratingapplauding, cheering, commending to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevantcarped about the order of names on the wedding invitations caviling(or cavilling), fussing, niggling, nitpicking, quibbling criticizing, faultingbeefing, bellyaching, bitching, complaining, crabbing, croaking, griping, grousing, growling, grumbling, kicking, kvetching, moaning, squawking, squealing, wailing, whimpering, whining, yammering, yawping(or yauping), yowlingmurmuring, muttering splitting hairs applauding, commending, complimenting, praising, recommendingapproving, backing, championing, endorsing(also indorsing), supporting adj.critical, hypercritical, faultfinding, captious, carping, censorious mean inclined to look for and point out faults and defects.critical may also imply an effort to see a thing clearly and truly in order to judge it fairly.a critical essay hypercritical suggests a tendency to judge by unreasonably strict standards.hypercritical disparagement of other people's work faultfinding implies a querulous or exacting temperament.a faultfinding reviewer captious suggests a readiness to detect trivial faults or raise objections on trivial grounds.a captious critic carping implies an ill-natured or perverse picking of flaws.a carping editorial censorious implies a disposition to be severely critical and condemnatory.the censorious tone of the review in 1567 |