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
The “Beef” quartet — Mulligan and Oscar Isaac playing striving, bickering millennials, Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeney as their younger, equally desperate counterparts — split their submissions between lead and supporting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
It was far from certain the country would respond as it did after 9/11, for there was plenty of the usual political bickering going on in the nation’s capital at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
One way a court can handle rumors of interpersonal bickering is to stop behaving badly in public sessions.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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