Thesaurus / bicker
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And, for want of better measure, he seized lustily a bicker that lay near him, and dashed a quantity of the liquor into it.
WILSON'S TALES OF THE BORDERS AND OF SCOTLAND VOLUME 17ALEXANDER LEIGHTONThey were cast in a quieter time and refuse to bicker on a paltry minute.
HINTS TO PILGRIMSCHARLES STEPHEN BROOKSKirsty and Jenny, two country lassies, were supping their "parritch" from the same bicker in the harvest-field one morning.
SCOTCH WIT AND HUMORW. H. (WALTER HENRY) HOWEWe grow old and wrinkled and sick; we bicker with those we love; it grows harder to remember, easier to forget.
HEMPFIELDDAVID GRAYSONThere is a homely saying in Wiltshire that married people are made to bicker and breed.
THE REAL SHELLEY, VOL. II (OF 2)JOHN CORDY JEAFFRESONThe two men bicker across the lady, as though the next word would bring blows.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREJOHN MASEFIELDWalter Scott was all but a dunce when a boy, always much readier for a “bicker,” than apt at his lessons.
SELF-HELPSAMUEL SMILESThey would bicker with each other, and not unfrequently abuse each other.
THE VICAR OF BULLHAMPTONANTHONY TROLLOPEFor, notwithstanding the endless bicker of these two heroes, they loved each other well.
IRISH FAIRY TALESJAMES STEPHENSIt was amusing to hear Grandpapa and Aunt Nicole bicker about what the whites called "faith."
SHAMANROBERT SHEAWORDS RELATED TO BICKER
- altercate
- argue over
- argufy
- avoid
- bicker
- blow hot and cold
- carp
- catch at straws
- cavil
- chicane
- criticize
- dispute
- equivocate
- evade
- fence
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- have at it
- hem and haw
- hypercriticize
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- niggle
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- nitpick
- paralogize
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- pretend
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- feud
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- finisher
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- go
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- knockdown
- out
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- rhubarb
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- bump
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- cross swords
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- bumping
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- charging
- clashing
- colliding
- complaining
- contending
- contesting
- crossing swords
- differing
- disapproving
- disputing
- dissenting
- dividing
- embroiling
- falling out
- feuding
- fighting
- finding fault
- getting tough with
- hassling
- having it out
- having words
- locking horns
- mixing it up
- objecting to
- rowing
- scrapping
- setting to
- sparring
- spitting
- squabbling
- striving
- struggling
- taking exception
- taking on
- tangling
- varying
- warring
- wrangling
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