bickering
Example Sentences
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But Mullin added that their personal differences wouldn’t keep him from doing his job — “it’s bigger than partisan bickering” — and asked Paul to let him earn his respect.
From Los Angeles Times
A pair of inquisitive magpies followed them from tree to tree, bickering.
From Literature
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Somewhere in between the teasing and the bickering, I’d come to think of him as more than a mandatory partner.
From Literature
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After some long-winded bickering between the two camps, the fighters - relatively restrained until that point - finally sparked into life.
From BBC
This constant bickering only leads to an inescapable level of discourse that serves the false perception of Fennell as the raging provocateur she is not.
From Salon
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