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Antonyms for carped

Grammar : Verb
Spell : kahrp
Phonetic Transcription : kɑrp


Definition of carped

Origin :
  • type of freshwater fish, late 14c., from Old French carpe "carp" (13c.) and directly from Vulgar Latin carpa (source also of Italian carpa, Spanish carpa), from a Germanic source (cf. Middle Dutch carpe, Dutch karper, Old High German karpfo, German Karpfen "carp"); possibly the immediate source is Gothic *karpa. A Danube fish (hence the proposed East Germanic origin of its name), introduced in English ponds 14c. Lithuanian karpis, Russian karp are Germanic loan words.
  • verb nag
Example sentences :
  • Byron sneered and carped at Southey as a "scribbler of all works."
  • Extract from : « The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 » by Lord Byron
  • The Citizen carped at the words, pointing out that a buffet was not a blow.
  • Extract from : « Sentimental Education, Volume II » by Gustave Flaubert
  • "Reminds me of the providential way that rivers always run past cities, just where they are needed," carped the Colonel.
  • Extract from : « Yellowstone Nights » by Herbert Quick
  • Perrault, in his Parallel between the ancients and the moderns, carped at Homer in the same spirit that Zoilus had done of old.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 (of 10) » by Alexander Pope
  • As for the cavilling crew who carped at her during her life Mrs. Behn has answered them and she was thoroughly competent so to do.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6) » by Aphra Behn
  • At the bottom of her heart she despised the other people, who carped and were loud over trifles.
  • Extract from : « The Rainbow » by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
  • What is excellent should never be carped at nor discussed, but enjoyed and reverentially thought over in silence.
  • Extract from : « Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources » by James Wood
  • It has been carped at by Christian scribblers, and criticised by superior theologians like Mozley.
  • Extract from : « Flowers of Freethought » by George W. Foote
  • Naturally enough, he is carped at and reviled almost as much by his political friends as by his political foes.
  • Extract from : « Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) » by William Henry Hurlbert
  • No one since has made any great progress in this criticism, though some have carped at these editors for not performing more.
  • Extract from : « Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2 » by Henry Hallam

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