squabble

IPA: skwˈɑbʌɫ

noun

  • A minor fight or argument.

verb

  • (intransitive) To participate in a minor fight or argument; to quarrel.
  • (transitive, printing) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment.
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Examples of "squabble" in Sentences

  • Wiki is not the place to dignify their squabbles.
  • You are part of the pointless squabble you decry.
  • Day after oath, ministers squabble for portfolios.
  • "the title squabble between the Saints and the Colts."
  • Farmer must delay project as county officials squabble.
  • However, I don't have the energy or the inclination to squabble.
  • The resulting squabble consumed the energies of the brief Garfield presidency.
  • There's a custody squabble, which is not helped by possible future deployments and MEU's.
  • He mentions it whenever he and One-Eye get into a squabble, which is about as often as they see one another.
  • One-Eye mentions that whenever they get into a squabble, which is about as often as there is an audience but nobody to get between them.
  • NANCY GRACE, COURT TV: Well, I know it is being characterized as a squabble, Larry, but I think the bottom line is that every victim's family -- and I'm speaking not just as a former prosecutor but as a victim of violent crime -- every victim's family wants that case to go forward, and they want to make sure that their loved ones 'case is protected.
  • The current squabble is nothing new, but it could herald far-reaching change: The U.K. government has pledged to extricate itself from the unedifying annual spectacle by removing the role of the secretary of state from determining the levy scheme, and there is a sense that this represents an opportunity to remodel the levy with a viable commercial mechanism.

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