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quarreling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quarrel \Quar"rel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quarreledor Quarrelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Quarreling or Quarrelling.]
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To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic.
Our people quarrel with obedience.
--Shak.But some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed.
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To dispute angrily, or violently; to wrangle; to scold; to altercate; to contend; to fight.
Beasts called sociable quarrel in hunger and lust.
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To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot.
I will not quarrel with a slight mistake.
--Roscommon.
Quarreling \Quar"rel*ing\, a. Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. -- Quar"rel*ing*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of quarrel English)
Usage examples of "quarreling".
Haverford was still knitting placidly, where the Chris Valentines were quarreling under pretense of raillery, where Toots Hayden was smoking a cigaret in a corner and smiling up at Graham, and where Natalie, exquisite and precise, was supervising the laying out of a bridge table.
For one thing, if Bandini had been retained as a tutor to educate Pedro as a fighting man, it was odd that the teacher and the pupil should have been so obviously quarreling when they were in Cruces together.
A number of quarreling letters followed, after which the correspondence came to an end.
Stanton, in regard to quarreling with such fellows as Sibley, although I hardly see how we could have acted differently.
Even while I was quarreling with Julio Cassata I was stealing peeks at the scene in Central Park.
Wherever there was a turmoil of merry-making or fighting or feasting or chaffing or quarreling, or a gilded pageant, or other manifestation of our trivial and fleeting life, into it drifted that black figure with the corpseface, and looked its fateful look and passed on.
At last, however, the Spawn had finished their gruesome repast and then had resumed quarreling and cursing, casting lots, shoving one another, bickering.
Quarreling and bickering were incessant, violent flare-ups and passionate scenes of denunciation and vituperation were of almost hourly occurrence.
A separate fight broke out when they overran the guards protecting the horses that carried the tribute and started quarreling over the goldpieces like a pack of dogs over a juicy bone.
And they were quarreling when Doc gave the hand throttle a steady pull and sent the ship across the tarmac.
Unless you have camped out in the bush, you have never heard such an eerie racket: the quarreling of hyraxes, the hose-pipe bleating of pachyderms, the madman laughter of hyenas.
The fallen Highlords ruled their fiefdoms roughly, brandishing their iron fists over the heads of their subjects and quarreling among themselves.
In some neighboring room, guards were making a racket, quarreling about some minor piece of loot—.
But he seemed more interested in quarreling with the woman than in arguing with the provost guard.
It was raining cats and dogs and the critters were quarreling all the way to the ground.