Critical, judicial, impartial, carping, caviling, captious, censorious.

"Sure, sure, such carping is not commendable," said Ursula.

Now we have a right to ask such questions as these, if we do not ask them out of any carping, fault-finding spirit, trying to pick holes in the Bible, from which God defend us and all Christian men.

Some say that wisely she might give more attention to her twin sons, Hayes and Wheeler Denney; but this likely is ill-natured carping, for Hayes and Wheeler seem not more lawless than other twins of eight.

I refer to the habit of carping, sneering, grumbling and criticising those who are above us.

In her father's lifetime, she had sought, on occasions of unwonted cheerfulness, to please him with certain charming tricks of attire; and sometimes, with only a white rose-bud gleaming through the braided shadows of her hair, lighted herself up as with a star; then, not a carping churl, not an envious coquette in Hendrik, but confessed to the prettiness of Sally Wimple.

Squabbling about music, carping, and fighting, and biting about it, have in the past done much harm to Trinity Church.

He observes, if Juvenal, whom he calls Aquine's carping spright, were now alive, among other surprising alterations at Rome, that he most would gaze and wonder at, Is th' horned mitre, and the bloody hat, The crooked staffe, their coule's strange form and store, Save that he saw the fame in hell before.

Well might Sterpsichores be blind for carping at so fair a creature, and a just punishment it was.

As though that commandment did not hinder the carping and caring for the daily bread.

" Time passed, andlet this be read and remembered by all carping critics who accuse our army of want of method and business sensein due course the application was returned, properly entered, checked, signed and counter-signed.

"Ah, but he was a rich man," cries the carping critic; "he could afford to do it."

But at once the mental picture of herself, making inaudible carping strictures on her companion's sootiness and, all unconscious, lifting to observe it a critical countenance as swart as his ownthe incongruity smote her deliciously, irresistibly!

CRITIC (A Bossu), one who criticizes the "getting up" of a book more than its literary worth; a captious, carping critic.

It was a natural and righteous protest against oppression, a movement lasting for seventy-five years, for which Americans, particularly, should award praise rather than blame or carping criticism.

This habit of carping at the Senior Service is being carried to abominable lengths.

Wrapped up as she was in this marvel of romance that had happened in the placid, everyday lives of the Winnebagos, she was not bothering about any carping correctness of words.

My claim to that modest title will scarcely be challenged by even the most carping critic who is conversant with the facts.

Certain wretched carping critics alleged that this arrangement was to prevent the possibility of error on the part of the Judges, who, otherwise, would never know whether a horse belonged to a General or a Subaltern, to a Member of Council or an Assistant Collector, to a Head of a Department or a wretched underlingin short to a personage or a person.

No, the position of carping, jealous husband was one that I could not fill, and I determined to say nothing, do nothing and be watchfulwatchful, that is, to avoid exposing her to temptation.

Embittered and suspicious she had found him, noted for the carping tongue he lacked both power and inclination to bridle; and she had, against his nature, made Maudelain see that every person is at bottom lovable, and that human vices are but the stains of a traveller midway in a dusty journey; and had incited the priest no longer to do good for his soul's health, but simply for his fellow's benefit.

I feel such carping to be little short of hypocrisy.]

It would hardly have been necessary to emphasize this point of view, or to dwell upon objections which, when one surrenders to the magic of the verse, can hardly appear other than carping, were it not for the somewhat injudicious and undiscriminating praise which it has been the fashion of a certain school of critics to lavish upon the piece.

Most especially let us not be carping and questioning as to the how far, or what precisely, we are to set down for true.

For, partly from the lessening of the physical strain and partly from the influence of congenial companionship, the carping discontent that had so possessed her of late had begun to give way to a softer and infinitely more gracious frame of mind.