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What is another word for carping about?

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Verb
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Present participle for to criticize someone for inadequacy or mistakes
finding fault with
censuring
condemning
impugning
criticisingUK
criticizingUS
reproaching
reproving
arraigning
knocking
hammering
attacking
slamming
slating
rubbishing
disparaging
faulting
griping about
finding lacking
running down
complaining about
taking to task
whining about
grouching about
grousing about
moaning about
quibbling about
laying into
nitpicking over
beefing about
bellyaching about
whingeing about
hauling over the coals
slagging off
sounding off about
picking holes in
tearing to shreds
giving some stick to
having a go at
dissing
blaming
dispraising
holding someone to blame
denouncing
reprehending
complaining to
questioning
calling to account
panning
holding accountable
holding responsible
slagging
lambasting
vilifying
blasting
savaging
maligning
deprecating
excoriating
slurring
besmirching
derogating
aspersing
slashing
reprobating
objurgating
rating
mauling
denigrating
roasting
bad-mouthing
trashing
lacing to
pouring scorn on
pulling to pieces
animadverting on
hitting out at
railing against
casting aspersions on
inveighing against
pulling apart
pillorying
pummellingUK
pummeling
skewering
bagging
crucifying
throwing brickbats at
nitpicking about
cavilling at
giving a bad press to
giving flak to
carping at
vituperating against
cutting up
disapproving of
castigating
reprimanding
sledging
bagging on
bashing
reviling
vituperating
flaming
scathing
flaying
tearing into
putting down
jumping on
decrying
abusing
chastising
rebuking
scolding
upbraiding
denunciating
assailing
lashing
potshotting
skinning
belaboringUS
scorching
blistering
dressing down
picking to pieces
fulminating against
passing strictures upon
nagging at
belabouringUK
berating
carpeting
getting angry with
giving a rocket
bawling out
tearing a strip off
chewing out
tearing off a strip
reading the riot act
criticizing severely
lampooning
tearing to pieces
tearing apart
animadverting upon
ridiculing
scourging
lashing into
shooting down
fustigating
carping
chiding
ripping
clobbering
slogging
inveighing
hitting
fluffing
rapping
zapping
slugging
trimming
cutting down
nit-picking
taking down
doing a number on
giving the business
finding fault
skinning alive
cutting to bits
picking at
giving bad press
passing judgment
coming down on
throwing shade
proscribing
discrediting
rejecting
deploring
execrating
anathematizing
declaiming
stigmatizingUS
prosecuting
ostracizingUS
impeaching
indicting
ostracisingUK
stigmatisingUK
showing up
declaiming against
charging with
giving something a bad press
calling out
Verb
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Present participle for to argue or raise objections about a trivial matter
quibbling
carping
cavillingUK
cavilingUS
nitpicking
fussing
niggling
criticisingUK
criticizingUS
pettifogging
querying
faulting
hypercriticizing
nit-picking
splitting hairs
chopping logic
finding fault with
cavilling at
complaining about
objecting to
picking holes in
raising trivial objections to
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