ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Bickering

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Bickering is an adjective meaning That bickers; argumentative.

Meaning

That bickers; argumentative.

More Meanings

  1. Petty quarreling.
  2. present participle and gerund of bicker

Example Sentences

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”.
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.
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.
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.

Word Forms

Synonyms for bickering

Depending on context, synonyms include fuss, squabble, spat, tiff, bicker.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include squabble, tiff, fuss, spat, quarrelling, squabbling.

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