0 a large fish that lives in lakes and rivers and can be eaten
1 to complain all the time about matters that are not important:
I can't stand the way he's always carping.
2 to complain about unimportant matters:
3 a large, edible fish that lives in lakes and rivers
Carping aside, the overall direction is good and the objectives are noble.
I had not intended these criticisms to be carping.
I am not attempting to be carping in advancing this view.
I say that to emphasise the fact that this is not a carping speech.
There has been no disposition whatever either to oppose it or to make anything in the nature of carping comments on it.
In my view, many of those criticisms have been rather carping and exaggerated.
There has only been carping on one topic—the need for universities to cut their coats according to their cloth.
We should be discussing it in the light of experience rather than carping about whether we have it at all.
