carping

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of carp

adj

1. complaining excessively.

   “However, since there are 488 pages in all for a bargain price of a guinea one must not be too carping.”

   “Written as a ripost to Samuel Constant’s short story "Le Mari sentimental", in which the husband is driven to despair and ultimately suicide by his carping wife, Mistress Henly begins with an account of the wife’s reading of the Constant story and how as a reader she links the text of imagination to the realities of her own life.”

noun

1. 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.””