stickle
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile in London His Majesty's Government continued to stickle for the oath in a sharp note to the Irish Free State, so sharp that last week neither sender nor receiver would divulge the contents.
From Time Magazine Archive
Classicists from Nick's, who stickle for the traditions of the Chicago Style, nodded their heads in austere approval.
From Time Magazine Archive
To all of them�pro-Nazi, anti-Nazi, pro-French or pro-League�the present seems no time to stickle.
From Time Magazine Archive
The interview ended with a present of half-a-bull to Micky from the convict, which the boy seemed to stickle at accepting.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
Our author in this second volume has given the small carpers who pick at the ‘eds’ of past participles, and stickle for old-fashioned moon-shine instead of moon-shine, fewer causes of complaint.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
