bickering

comparative more bickering · superlative most bickering

1. That bickers; argumentative.

plural bickerings

1. Petty quarreling.

   1820, in Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough, By William Coxe, Ch.40 heading. Meeting of Parliament. — Choice of a whig Speaker. — Speech from the throne. — Parliamentary proceedings, and party bickerings.

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   By this time the two companies were beginning to realise that the continual bickering was not doing either of them much good, and the L.Y.R. (like many others) was becoming tired of the dominance of Euston.

   1957 October 28, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 726

   After Evra was also shown a yellow card following a prolonged bout of bickering which also involved Suarez, Ferguson decided on a double change by replacing Park Ji-sung and Ashley Young with Nani and Rooney.

   2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport

   Ukrainian intelligence said on Friday that Prigozhin’s public bickering with the army leadership confirmed “their fear of responsibility for the inevitable geopolitical defeat of Moscow”.

   2023 May 12, Pjotr Sauer, “Russian troops fall back to ‘defensive positions’ near Bakhmut”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of bicker