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