stickle
Example Sentences
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To all of them�pro-Nazi, anti-Nazi, pro-French or pro-League�the present seems no time to stickle.
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Meanwhile in London His Majesty's Government continued to stickle for the oath in a sharp note to the Irish Free State, so sharp that last week neither sender nor receiver would divulge the contents.
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Classicists from Nick's, who stickle for the traditions of the Chicago Style, nodded their heads in austere approval.
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No, Harey," he continued, "I won't stickle for knives, or even pistols.
From Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War by Pearse, S. B.
Do you think a Silenus would hesitate and stickle and scruple over a point of honor; though some of us have seen Silenus blunder into a paradise which he promptly transformed into a sty?
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.