0 past simple and past participle of carp
1 to complain all the time about matters that are not important:
I can't stand the way he's always carping.
How could they really be their own women, carped the press, when they had male songwriters and a male manager 'pulling the strings'?
We would then be much more likely to get the concessions from our partners than if we stayed outside and carped about it.
It is utter nonsense to pretend that we have criticised and carped about it.
The proposals that we put forward at the start of the process were continually criticised and carped at from the wings.
He carped a lot, but failed to answer the questions.
Pancras criticised and carped, but he said nothing.
Hindenburg carped that politics was full of issues such as economics that he did not, and did not want to, understand.
