Detractor vs Carper - What's the difference?
detractor | carper |
A person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.
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a person who habitually , who talks too much and regularly finds fault
* 1605–1608': By putting on the cunning of a '''carper — William Shakespeare, ''Timon of Athens , 1605–1608
* 1678': Come, let my '''carper to his life now look, / And find there darker lines than in my book — John Bunyan, ''The Pilgrim's Progress , 1678
* 1909–1914':He censures everything, this zealous '''carper . — Curtis Hidden Page's translation of ''Tartuffe or the Hypocrite by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere, 1909–1914
As nouns the difference between detractor and carper
is that detractor is a person who belittles the worth of another person or cause while carper is a person who habitually , who talks too much and regularly finds fault.detractor
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Alternative forms
* detractour (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)- Four polite Englishmen in their middle 20s, feigning like firewater drunks in a Eugene O'Neill play: it's exactly the stuff that makes their detractors groan.