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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
carp .
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Examples
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Critics have carped that Pearce's caution is excessive, citing as an example his continued deployment of Mancienne in midfield.
Should England have trusted Stuart Pearce to look after the kids? | Paul Doyle 2011
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Critics have carped that Pearce's caution is excessive, citing as an example his continued deployment of Mancienne in midfield.
Should England have trusted Stuart Pearce to look after the kids? | Paul Doyle 2011
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When Nelson Cruz of Texas was credited with being the first to end a postseason game with a grand slam homer, lots of you carped, "not so fast Bunky."
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011
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Much of the U.S. foreign policy establishment carped that such an agenda only got in the way of more important Mideast priorities, like the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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No one but the michaelmoores complained that bin Laden hadn't been given a Miranda warning or carped that our faithful friends, the Pakistanis, hadn't been tipped off first.
Ken Blackwell: Shovel-Ready in the Middle East? Ken Blackwell 2011
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Republicans didn't cave to the class warfare, even as the press carped at how unreasonable they were being.
The St. Paul Solution Stephen Moore 2011
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In addition to pushing back against what he has described as superficial punishment by the SEC for companies accused of fraud, Judge Rakoff has overturned a death-penalty conviction and carped about U.S. sentencing guidelines.
No Mr. Nice Guy—Just Ask Wall Street Michael Rothfeld 2011
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Finally do they not get that the power person in this st down is the President and that these guys that sort-of carped against him since February 07 have to live with that?
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"Hedge funds are at the very pointy end of capitalism," Mr. Kinsella carped.
A Protest Without Rhyme or Reason Eric Felten 2011
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The good cop appealed to the silent majority -- while bad cop Agnew (with the same ghostwriter) carped about the nattering nabobs of negativism.
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