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at loggerheads

See definition of at loggerheads on Dictionary.com
  • as inbelligerent
  • as inquarreling
  • as inscrappy

synonyms for at loggerheads

  • aggressive
  • antagonistic
  • bellicose
  • combative
  • contentious
  • hostile
  • ornery
  • quarrelsome
  • fighting
  • flip
  • mean
  • militant
  • ardent
  • battling
  • cantankerous
  • fierce
  • have a bone to pick
  • have chip on shoulder
  • have it in for
  • hot
  • hot-tempered
  • on the outs
  • pugnacious
  • scrappy
  • truculent
  • warlike

antonyms for at loggerheads

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  • agreeable
  • calm
  • friendly
  • kind
  • peaceful
  • cooperative
  • helping
  • nice
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    How to use at loggerheads in a sentence

    Tressan was monstrous ill-at-ease, and his face lost a good deal of its habitual plethora of colour.
    ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI
    A fellow rudely clad—a hybrid between man-at-arms and lackey—lounged on a musket to confront them in the gateway.
    ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI
    And the Seneschal, moved by that confident promise of evil, threw himself before the men-at-arms.
    ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI
    On the first day, a thousand English archers, supported by men-at-arms, attempted to draw the Scots.
    KING ROBERT THE BRUCEA. F. MURISON
    Belhaven made his escape to his own country, and was there beyond the reach of the Serjeant-at-Arms.
    THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
    Her mother had been carried off by a Burgundian man-at-arms, and none knew what had become of her.
    THE MERRIE TALES OF JACQUES TOURNEBROCHEANATOLE FRANCE
    At the foot of the table the Norman men-at-arms were splashing their liquor, and roaring broad jests at the Greek serving-maids.
    GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS
    It was made imperative that a serjeant-at-law or a king's counsel should sit to assist in the judgment.
    THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.III.E. FARR AND E. H. NOLAN
    Men-at-arms rushed away; but in neither the multitude nor the city found they Zeyneb.
    GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS
    The heedless chatter of the ladies, the braying laughs of the men-at-arms, were a little chilled.
    GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS
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