English-Thai Dictionary

carping

ADJ ช่าง จับผิด  faultfinding chang-jab-phid

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CARPING

ppr. Caviling; captious; censorious.

 

CARPING

n.The act of caviling; a cavil; unreasonable censure.

 

CARPINGLY

adv. Captiously; in a carping manner.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CARPING

CARPING Carp "ing, a.

 

Defn: Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious. -- Carp "ing *ly, adv.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

carping

carp ing |ˈkärpiNG kɑːrpɪŋ | ▶adjective difficult to please; critical: she has silenced the carping critics with a successful debut tour.

 

Oxford Dictionary

carping

carp |ing |ˈkɑːpɪŋ | ▶adjective difficult to please; critical: she has silenced the carping critics with a successful debut tour.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

carping

carping adjective she has silenced the carping critics with a massively successful debut tour: 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, hard /difficult /impossible to please; informal griping, bellyaching, bitching, whingeing, nitpicking, hair-splitting, picky; Brit. informal chuntering; N. English informal mithering; N. Amer. informal kvetching. ANTONYMS forgiving; complimentary.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

carping

c á rp ing 名詞 U ｟主に英書 ｠あら探し ; (つまらぬ事に絶えず )文句を付けること .形容詞 あら探しの (好きな ); 口やかましい [うるさい ]▸ a carping tongue 毒舌 ～ly 副詞