bickering

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ADJ.

all, continual, enough, involved, other, over, prolonged, tired

VERB + BICKERING

doesn't, end, keep, kept, like, quit, stop, stopped

BICKERING + NOUN

wife

PREP.

after, bout, in, until, with

ADV.

also, always

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adj

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That bickers; argumentative.

noun

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Petty quarreling.

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.

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noun — a quarrel about petty points

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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 bicker

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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 E

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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

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When two people are forced into a marriage of convenience, they will be an unhappy, bickering couple until the very end.

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All this bickering is starting to fray my nerves.

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I'm sick and tired of all this bickering.

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