Carp (Verb)
Meaning
Raise trivial objections.
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- The lawyer kept trying to carp about minor inconsistencies in the witness's testimony.
- She's always carping about something, no matter how insignificant it is.
- He has a tendency to carp about every little thing that goes wrong in his life.
- The critic spent the entire review carping about minor flaws in the film's plot.
- She avoided arguing with her friend because he would carp about every single detail.