squabbly

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adjective

Having the tendency to squabble, argumentative

Scrabble 24

Meanings

adjectivesquabbly (comparative more squabbly, superlative most squabbly)

comparative more squabbly · superlative most squabbly

  1. Having the tendency to squabble, argumentative

    Perhaps the two girls were closer to each other, but Osgood and I were a squabbly pair of youngsters.

    1983, Frederick Vanderbilt Field, From Right to Left: An Autobiography, page 37
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    We came to have paid staff, and had to go by rules and regulations and contracts, and things started to get squabbly

    2000, Staughton Lynd, Alice Lynd, The New Rank and File, page 125

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