Antonyms for bickering


Grammar : Verb
Spell : bik-er
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɪk ər


Definition of bickering

Origin :
  • c.1300, "a skirmish," from bicker (v.). Meaning "a verbal wrangle" is from 1570s.
  • verb nastily argue
Example sentences :
  • What use of logic, where there was no bickering about the double-meaning words?
  • Extract from : « The Praise of Folly » by Desiderius Erasmus
  • And there were the dogs, ever squabbling and bickering, bursting into uproars and creating confusions.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • As it was, the Philosophers contented themselves with bickering.
  • Extract from : « Tom, Dick and Harry » by Talbot Baines Reed
  • The bickering and rivalries must have been part of the camouflage.
  • Extract from : « A Slave is a Slave » by Henry Beam Piper
  • I am tired of war, tired of bickering, tired of watching and being watched.
  • Extract from : « Long Live the King » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • They were bickering, an ominous sign for some one yet unknown.
  • Extract from : « The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley » by Louis Tracy
  • The Mongol sank back to his place among the furs, and the bickering was continued.
  • Extract from : « Panther Eye » by Roy J. Snell
  • Most of the members of the company were young; there was no bickering.
  • Extract from : « Charles Frohman: Manager and Man » by Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman
  • She hated to hear us arguing and bickering as was generally our way when we met.
  • Extract from : « She and I, Volume 1 » by John Conroy Hutcheson
  • Einstein was the only thinker in a century gone mad from bickering.
  • Extract from : « Hunters Out of Space » by Joseph Everidge Kelleam

Synonyms for bickering

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