How to pronounce“carping”in English
people in the end people rely on expertise every day. That's why I was saying it's not really the death of expertise. It's kind of this political
carping about expertise. It really has become a political phenomenon that almost anyone
who argues with the know-nothings that populate an administration like this one um are called elitist and, you know,
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Definitions of “carping”
present participle and gerund of carp
complaining excessively.
“Having thus acknowledged what I owe those who have aided and approved me, I turn to another class; a small one, so far as I know, but not, therefore, to be overlooked. I mean the timorous or carping few who doubt the tendency of such books as "Jane Eyre:" in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ears detect in each protest against bigotry -- that parent of crime -- an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth. I would suggest to such doubters certain obvious distinctions; I would remind them of certain simple truths.”
Excessive complaining.
““Oh, stop your carping, Dawn!” I told myself. “You can't expect charming tones, and Oriental do-dads and apple trees in a German boarding-house.””
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