CARP AT Copy link • CARP ATcarpere: vellicare: maledico ore vellicare (maliciously). To carp at indirectly, aliquem obliquis orationibus carpere: aliquem oblique perstringere; jacolari in aliquem obliquis sententiis; cavillari aliquem or aliquid: the soldiers carped at Sabinus, Sabinus mititum vocibus carpebatur: to carp at every body, dieteria dicere in omnes: to carp at every thing, omnia in vitium vertere; to carp at bitterly, acerbis facetiis aliquem irridere.