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Definition of Carpingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpingly
Literary usage of Carpingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1829)
"... and which none altogether escape, we must not be too fastidious in minutia?
of little moment, nor carpingly strive to overcloud Dr. Brown's excellencies ..."
2. Studies in American Trade Unionism by Jacob Harry Hollander, George Ernest Barnett (1905)
"Sometimes the union member, instead of giving proper support to his officers,
criticised them unnecessarily and carpingly. Often, he allowed himself to be ..."
3. Reminiscences by Justin McCarthy (1899)
"It came with all the greater novelty on the ears of the listeners because it was
what might fairly and not carpingly be called an old-fashioned order of ..."
4. The Government of American Trade Unions by Theodore Wesley Glocker (1913)
"... ready to meet new and unexpected situations with few resources to aid him,
and perhaps with a discouraged and carpingly critical following at his back. ..."
5. The Cambridge "Apostles" by Frances Mary Brookfield (1907)
"When Milnes was made a peer, his friends were all of them genuinely delighted,
though Greville comments somewhat carpingly, " Monckton Milnes has obtained ..."
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