bickering
- quarreling adj.
- altercation n.
- argument n.
- beef n.
- brawl n.
- controversy n.
- difficulty n.
- disagreement n.
- dispute n.
- dissension n.
- feud n.
- fracas n.
- friction n.
- fuss n.
- hairsplitting n.
- hassle n.
- imbroglio n.
- polemic n.
- quarrel n.
- row n.
- ruction n.
- run-in n.
- spat n.
- squabble n.
- strife n.
- tiff n.
- unrest n.
- uproar n.
- vendetta n.
- wrangle n.
Example Sentences
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Her popular podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me is full of gossip, oversharing and comic bickering - music to the ears of the Traitors producers, no doubt.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Its cast includes the bickering members of a Sri Lankan hotel cleaner’s family, insecure American freshmen, dead-end third-tier college professors and their highflying Ivy League counterparts and dispirited university functionaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
So it becomes one more point of bickering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
One way a court can handle rumors of interpersonal bickering is to stop behaving badly in public sessions.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Worn out by the bickering, a surprising number of people eventually caved in.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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