set-to
- altercation n.
- argument n.
- bout n.
- brush n.
- clash n.
- conflict n.
- conflict n.
- confrontation n.
- contention n.
- contest n.
- difference n.
- encounter n.
- fight n.
- fighting n.
- fracas n.
- fray n.
- friction n.
- melee n.
- misunderstanding n.
- polemic n.
- quarrel n.
- row n.
- run-in n.
- scrap n.
- scuffle n.
- brouhaha n.
- squabble n.
- struggle n.
- tilt n.
- tourney n.
- wrangle n.
- argue v.
- attack v.
- buckle down v.
- contend v.
- contest v.
- debate v.
- disagree v.
- embark on v.
- enter v.
- pettifog v.
- pitch in v.
- quarrel v.
- quibble v.
- take up v.
- wade v.
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Itching for a robust little set-to, they rode around waving the California Republic’s Bear Flag — which by then was a states’ rights symbol.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
What was most striking about this set-to was how much Warren seemed to be enjoying it.
From The New Yorker ● May 17, 2016
Back in the United States, Nixon, poised to run for the presidency, gained stature as a tough anti-Communist in his set-to with Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2016
Originally scheduled for July 2015, the superhero set-to will now appear on 6 May, 2016.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2014
When she and Walter have a really good set-to it makes one feel positively abject about one's ignorance.
From A Crooked Mile by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
It’s qualitatively different from the kind of tiredness that comes from an afternoon of set-tos and whining when you and your kid are stuck in a room together.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2019
During the day he cares for the inmates, consoling them, moderating their set-tos and tenderly putting them, when the time comes, to sleep.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2018
But the formal strictures of such set-tos mask the fact that debate, in its loosest form, is something most people engage in almost daily.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2010
Despite the sister's gabby gossiping, the kids' shenanigans, the marital jawings and set-tos, the dress for the party and the dressing for the party, there are bogeys at the stairhead and phantoms outside the window.
From Time Magazine Archive
There will be some grand set-tos between mother and Robert.
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
