Worry unnecessarily or excessively.
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Examples for "squabble "
Examples for "squabble "
1 The politicians just shout and squabble and all of Europe knows it.
2 Cross-border banks may prove harder to resolve if authorities squabble over losses.
3 Later we may squabble , just the way I do with Walt now.
4 Now divine attention has become a resource that they must squabble for.
5 Once they are in there they can talk and squabble for hours.
1 He was right, of course, and there was no time to quibble .
2 You're in no position to talk of rights or quibble about titles.
3 There was barely a quibble about the charges during the information morning.
4 The woman was too downright in her honesty to quibble or fence.
5 But it is needless to quibble at a definition of the term.
1 Before we can bicker any further, the sheriff walks into the courtroom.
2 He could not bear to hear his parents bicker any longer.
3 They can bicker and brawl to their hearts' content, it makes no difference.
4 It is never good news when two of the world's biggest economies bicker .
5 The current suspects get to bicker in a stylish basement with insulated walls.
1 His wrath at their babble and petty brabble doubted that they did.
2 There will be a great brabble about it.'
3 Other whites take part in our brabbles , while temper holds out, with a certain schoolboy entertainment.
4 All their debates were pacified by him; he put an end to their brabbling suits at law and wrangling differences.
5 He had hailed even the Treaty of Utrecht with welcome, in hopes it might at least end these Northern brabbles .
1 It wouldn't do me any good to pettifog in this matter.
2 Lanny, you, with all your intellect-whenyou know the oath as well as I - you pettifog like that!
3 The issues involved are too big and far-reaching for pettifogging methods.
4 The opposition did not propose to waste effort on pettifogging preliminaries.
5 Politics after Auschwitz was not meant to become yet another instance of pettifogging .
1 It's possible that one outstanding niggle may resurface; if so, avoid overreacting.
2 He felt a niggle of worry every time he thought of her.
3 I remembered another niggle - odeon line from an earlier Spithill interview I did.
4 Leinster senior coach Stuart Lancaster said: Johnny has a lower-leg niggle .
5 However, one small niggle has been thrown up by the event.
6 Okay, it did niggle , but it was something I could forget easily enough.
7 Which I guess is more of a wish than a niggle .
8 But there was still that niggle , that suspicion, that wouldn't entirely go away.
9 Then the last thing he said begins to niggle at her wakening brain.
10 Trial was OK. Could win on best form but there's a doubt niggle there.
11 In a pulsating, physical game with plenty of niggle , North then held their nerve.
12 And we still don't know the extent of Flintoff's niggle .
13 There was niggle as tensions rose in the second half.
14 This was after returning from international duty with a niggle .
15 It was tetchy stuff and there was obvious niggle all the way through it.
16 He was also everywhere defensively and provided his trademark niggle , picking up four fouls.
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