Thesaurus / squabble
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The rest of the family sometimes balked at their squabbles, which Farr said drove their relatives “justifiably nuts.”
OBITUARY FOR KANSAS COVID-19 VICTIM SLAMS ANTI-MASKERS WHO ‘REFUSE TO WEAR A PIECE OF CLOTH ON THEIR FACE TO PROTECT ONE ANOTHER’KATIE SHEPHERDDECEMBER 4, 2020WASHINGTON POSTShaver’s songs evoked dusty back roads, rural isolation, bar fights, knock-down drag-out marital squabbles and money lost at poker games, as well as the near-destitution of his youth and his own lofty ambitions.
BILLY JOE SHAVER, SINGER-SONGWRITER WHO INSPIRED OUTLAW COUNTRY, DIES AT 81TERENCE MCARDLEOCTOBER 29, 2020WASHINGTON POST“The meeting devolved into a partisan squabble,” The Post’s Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima and Adam Entous reported the following year.
FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY, THE U.S. SAW THE WILDEST HOUR IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HISTORYPHILIP BUMPOCTOBER 7, 2020WASHINGTON POSTBees did, we presume, during a biochemical squabble with viruses in a damp corner of their shared history.
THE FUNGAL EVANGELIST WHO WOULD SAVE THE BEES - ISSUE 90: SOMETHING GREENMERLIN SHELDRAKESEPTEMBER 23, 2020NAUTILUSThe squabble eventually devolved into a barely choreographed slapstick fight where Colbert, O’Brien, and Jon Stewart seemed to be locked in a battle for the ages.
ONE GOOD THING: STEPHEN COLBERT IS LOOSER, FUNNIER, AND ANGRIER IN QUARANTINEEMILY VANDERWERFFSEPTEMBER 4, 2020VOXWe fix it up and agree to try over ag'in, and then, fust thing we know, we're right into the middle of another squabble.
SCATTERGOOD BAINESCLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLANDThe principle would be valuable in many a squabble of corporate employer and hosts of servants in the modern time.
EDUCATION: HOW OLD THE NEWJAMES J. WALSHTwice the big steamer stopped her engines and drifted until the squabble ahead of her seemed to have been settled.
BLOW THE MAN DOWNHOLMAN DAYFult Cawsler hes done moved hyar from over on Squabble Creek, an' opened a resteraw.
THE CODE OF THE MOUNTAINSCHARLES NEVILLE BUCKThe hogs evidently thought it feed time, for they rushed forward and began to squabble over the voided matter.
LINCOLNIANAANDREW ADDERUPWORDS RELATED TO SQUABBLE
- altercation
- argument
- battle
- beef
- belligerency
- bone of contention
- bone to pick
- combat
- conflict
- contest
- controversy
- difference
- disaccord
- discord
- dispute
- dissension
- dissent
- dissidence
- disunity
- enmity
- fight
- flak
- hassle
- hostility
- quarrel
- rivalry
- run-in
- scene
- scrap
- set-to
- squabble
- static
- strife
- struggle
- variance
- war
- wrangle
- wrangling
- altered
- be distinguished from
- bore no resemblance
- clashed with
- conflict with
- contradicted
- contrasted
- departed from
- deviate from
- digressed
- disagreed
- divaricated from
- diverged
- diversified
- jar with
- lack resemblance
- modified
- not conformed
- not looked like
- qualified
- ran counter to
- reversed
- sang a different tune
- showed contrast
- stood apart
- took exception
- turned
- varied
- was off the beat path
- was unlike
- alters
- be distinguishes from
- bears no resemblance
- clashes with
- conflict with
- contradicts
- contrasts
- departs from
- deviate from
- digresses
- disagrees
- divaricates from
- diverges
- diversifies
- is off the beats path
- is unlike
- jar with
- lack resemblance
- modifies
- not conforms
- not looks like
- qualifies
- reverses
- runs counter to
- shows contrast
- sings a different tune
- stands apart
- takes exception
- turns
- varies
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