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.
Advertisement
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.
Advertisement
Advertisement