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