Carping Sentence Examples

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  • Justly reproved, I commend any business which encourages the appreciation of Britain 's waterways deserves support, not carping.

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  • Wallis having been betrayed originally by his fatal cleverness into the pettiest carping at words, Hobbes had retorted in kind, and then it became a high duty in the other to defend his Latin with great parade of learning and give fresh provocation.

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  • His commentary on Don Quixote owes something to John Bowle, and is disfigured by a patronizing, carping spirit; nevertheless it is the most valuable work of its kind, and is still unsuperseded.

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  • It contains also a most curious commentary on Desportes, in which Malherbe's minute and carping style of verbal criticism is displayed on the great scale.

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  • Justly reproved, I commend any business which encourages the appreciation of Britain's waterways deserves support, not carping.

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