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nounPlural quarrels ˈkwɒr(ə)l 1A heated argument or disagreement, typically about a trivial issue and between people who are usually on good term. she made the mistake of picking a quarrel with John Example sentencesExamples - The office is not a place either for a lover's quarrel, which could be annoying and inappropriate to colleagues.
- All the misunderstandings and quarrels of the past had been sorted out.
- You are entering a challenging time of quarrels and conflict that nevertheless will offer you the chance to put an end to a tricky situation once and for all.
- It is quite normal that conflicts of interests may sometimes lead to quarrels or even fights.
- Meanwhile courtiers had told Cosimo that his mathematician was engaging in disputes that might bring discredit on him, so he advised Galileo to write out his arguments and avoid public quarrels.
- I still remember a lover's quarrel last February when I'd walked desolately along Madison Avenue, only to come across a small crowd gathered around the store.
- Confrontation on Spruce St. is one example, in which a young couple is seen arguing - maybe over a parking spot, maybe having a lovers' quarrel, maybe even sharing a joke.
- The injury he had done was not the result of sudden heat of blood or quarrel, but of a deliberate determination to commit violence, for the purpose of preventing others working for the wages they chose to work for.
- Best friends since secondary school, Jeff and Nick had their fair share of arguments and quarrels in their six years of friendship, but always managed to patch things up in a matter of time.
- Gossip causes quarrel and tears apart relationships, families, even entire communities.
- I have in mind the escalation of violent quarrels and feuds, particularly in a tribal culture.
- Actually, the same principle used to solve domestic quarrels can be applied to achieve world peace.
- Pam's recipe for a long and happy marriage is a lot of give and take, and always making up any arguments or quarrels before going to bed.
- Tensions were also high between soldiers from Italian 1st Regiment and those from France, with arguments and quarrels among the soldiers leading to duels.
- However, it was no playground quarrel between fellow pupils.
- Customers often asked the kindly gentleman to help crack their problems, which could be anything from domestic quarrels to housing disputes.
- It was not a particularly serious quarrel and the relationship between the two of you up to that point had been fairly good.
- The Baildons were known for legal quarrels, fighting, intimidation and even murder.
- Serious diplomatic quarrels and armed conflicts have begun over less significant misunderstandings.
- Their first meeting around Johnson's dinner table ended in a quarrel since Wollstonecraft disagreed with Godwin's sweeping atheism.
Synonyms argument, row, fight, disagreement, difference of opinion, dissension, falling-out - 1.1usually with negative A reason for disagreement with a person, group, or principle.
we have no quarrel with the people of the country, only with the dictator Example sentencesExamples - I have no quarrels with the broad thrust of the ambitions laid out in the smart, successful Scotland strategy.
- My second quarrel is with Prager's description of the Left as ‘easily offended’.
- And I have absolutely no quarrel whatsoever with how well, Steve, you performed your duties.
- On the contrary, many people who have no quarrel with having liquor served with meals often treat the matter as a non-issue.
- They will get no quarrel from me about the utterly tacky impropriety of these guys acting as the messengers for such a call.
- That's one of my chief quarrels with that form of Christianity.
- I find the movie-person's view of the arts much more congenial, whatever quarrels I may have with it.
- One would have no quarrel in taking into account the factor of saving the prosecutrix the ordeal of giving evidence.
- Several, in fact, read my blog and with such people I have no quarrel and never have had one.
- I have no quarrel was those who call themselves ‘Traditionalist’ Catholic per se.
- MacSwan's basic quarrel is with the widely discredited notion of semilingualism that, he argues, is perpetuated in Cummins' theories.
- Most of this Indian section, which like the rest of the book rides on a great deal of research, is smoothly convincing; we sanction it without quarrel as the prelude to the real event, the shipwreck.
- Consider this: the samples were tested at Metrowater's laboratory and there should thus be no quarrel about figures!
- My only real quarrel is with the chapter on ‘Neurodevelopment and Pharmacological Treatment’ by the aforementioned editors of Pathological Gambling.
- As for D' Souza's defense of capitalism, he'll get no quarrel from me, although it's astonishing how little these arguments change over the years.
- It is not the French people with whom I have any quarrel, but their corporate interpretation and abuse of EU rules does stick in the gullet.
- I have no quarrel with your terminology except that it has connotations of teenage American witches in my mind.
- That war was not the quarrel of the indigenous people, yet we conscripted them to fight it.
- She shares her own student quarrels with New Criticism, describes how she supplements her use of it with psychology and history, and laments its waning relevance.
- If ‘just’ means ‘generating more revenues for government’, then no quarrel there.
verbquarrels, quarrelling, quarrelled, quarreled, quarreling ˈkwɒr(ə)l [no object]1Have a heated argument or disagreement. stop quarrelling with your sister Example sentencesExamples - Initially, the cultural differences between the two causes them to quarrel, but as they set farther into the desert, the film becomes one of mutual self-discovery.
- We've got differences of opinions but we've never quarrelled.
- She and Winston quarreled frequently about money during the lean years after Lord Randolph's death.
- While neither side disputed the facts with respect to integration, they quarrelled over differing interpretations of the consequences.
- Police said the couple had quarrelled earlier in the evening.
- There was, consequently, little communication to be had between the two of us, but I learned my fair share of slang and swear words, and I also learned to quarrel in a foreign language.
- When her husband took drugs, he became a completely different person who would quarrel over trivia, and even simple things like not having orange juice in the refrigerator can lead to big fights.
- However, while the women bickered and quarreled, their herds escaped.
- It was Salih who had read Founding Brothers and who reminded the American journalist that even the Founding Fathers had quarreled among themselves, argued, and nurtured grudges.
- The two have quarreled through the media since then, each with differing opinions of the fight.
- Now, husband and wife are quarrelling about more mundane matters.
- They accuse and defend, bicker and quarrel, and cannot seem to talk about their real feelings or listen to each other.
- Of course, lovers never had it easy: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet paid with their lives only because their families quarrelled.
- He doubts the ship's capacity to reach Europe, quarrels with his captain and asks to be left on the next island where there is water.
- After the enemies were vanquished, however, the victors quarreled and their fundamental disagreements emerged.
- We should not quarrel over external differences.
- On various occasions during the trip Tim and Chris quarrelled, but Tim assured Trevor in the long run it made their friendship stronger.
- At a Vanity Fair photo session, the rivalry between the women spilled into outright hostility when they quarrelled about who should stand where in a group shot.
- They bicker and quarrel, yet clearly love each other.
- Mr Babbage and Mr Clement had a big disagreement and quarrelled over money.
Synonyms argue, have a fight, have a row, row, fight, disagree, fail to agree, differ, be at odds, have a misunderstanding, be at variance, fall out - 1.1quarrel with Take exception to or disagree with (something)
some people quarrel with this approach Example sentencesExamples - But rather than quarreling with what he says, I will present my own view and leave it to readers to decide whether the differences are subtle or substantial.
- ‘I don't think it would be fair and honourable to start quarreling with the results,’ she said.
- It's a word - I'm quarrelling not with you, obviously, I'm quarrelling with the culture, which is one of the things I like to do.
- The Ciceronian Review also quarrels with the rotunda analogy, and asserts ‘the evidence suggests that the Democrats did not know the files were open.’
- Muldoon's ambition was always palpable, but Johansson quarrels with the common view that he simply used power in the service of his own ambitions.
- Till date, no one has quarrelled with the fee structure - not even the government.
- But I am not quarreling with the fact that the reviewer doesn't like the book - he's perfectly free not to - or even with the idea that if there were some sort of objective, platonic ideal of a best books list, Tolkien would not be on it.
- That this concept is true is just so blazingly obvious that I can't imagine anybody quarrelling with it.
- It's interesting to hear you say all of that, because no one quarrels with the fact that Bono does his homework and that his heart is in the right place.
- Staff have suggested 17 different alternatives, on which the public will be asked to give opinions, providing no one quarrels with the magic number of four, which is what council has decided we will have.
- He may have been a tyrant but the world still quarrels with the manner and mode in which he was ousted from power by the powerful nations who on paper believe in democracy and the rule of law.
- I guess Taheri wouldn't quarrel with that, as far as it goes.
- We believe in the system of justice, and I've been prosecutor for 37 years, and 37 years, I have never quarreled with a jury's verdict and I'm not going to start today.
- But at the same time, he quarrels with the logic that produced that strategy and puts a set of onerous conditions in the way of its execution.
- He was an effective president anyway and I don't quarrel with his legacy.
Synonyms find fault with, fault, criticize, argue with/against, object to, be hostile to, censure, condemn, be against, be anti, oppose, be in opposition to, take exception to, attack, take issue with, find lacking, pick holes in, impugn, contradict, dispute, rebut, complain about, cavil at, carp at informal knock formal gainsay rare controvert - 1.2West Indian Complain or scold someone.
he will quarrel like hell if he see black pods on the trees Example sentencesExamples - Now, men are always noted for quarrelling about not getting enough of the goodly stuff.
- All truth be told, despite the fact that we may quarrel about the hardships about living here in Jamaica, I know that I could be far worse off.
- But the overwhelming impression, reinforced by the river's constant laughing and quarrelling beside you, is of nature's profusion, of its own abundance.
- There was a lot of complaining and some quarreling from all involved.
- I'm sure everyone around me has heard me constantly quarrelling about wasting paper, about using the other side of paper of prints gone bad for scrap.
Derivatives noun ˈkwɒr(ə)lə As the quarrelers began to settle, that lone voice began to break through. Example sentencesExamples - The two quarrelers were given citations for disturbing the peace and fighting in public, according to Officer Maculae.
- But where Storm's failings and frustrations on the ice caused dressing room discontent when TC was in charge, Lipsey's crop of players are no quarrellers and now, five months into the season, that unity finally seems to be paying off.
Origin Middle English (in the sense 'reason for disagreement with a person'): from Old French querele, from Latin querel(l)a 'complaint', from queri 'complain'. Rhymes amoral, Balmoral, coral, immoral, laurel, moral, sorel, sorrel nounPlural quarrels ˈkwɒr(ə)l 1historical A short, heavy, square-headed arrow or bolt used in a crossbow or arbalest. Example sentencesExamples - A few Elven archers fell, pierced by the poisoned crossbow quarrels (arrows).
- I ducked as a crossbow quarrel clattered against stone near my head.
- A box of quarrels for the crossbow that hung from his saddle adorned his belt, and the usual broadsword rode in its scabbard on his left side.
- Many simply fell over others who'd gone down in front of them, but at such short range a single quarrel could drive clean through two or even three men, and they wreaked terrible havoc.
2A small, diamond-shaped pane of glass as used in lattice windows. 3Northern English A square floor tile.
Origin Middle English: from Old French, based on late Latin quadrus ‘square’. noun 1A heated argument or disagreement, typically about a trivial issue and between people who are usually on good term. she made the mistake of picking a quarrel with John Example sentencesExamples - I still remember a lover's quarrel last February when I'd walked desolately along Madison Avenue, only to come across a small crowd gathered around the store.
- Serious diplomatic quarrels and armed conflicts have begun over less significant misunderstandings.
- Their first meeting around Johnson's dinner table ended in a quarrel since Wollstonecraft disagreed with Godwin's sweeping atheism.
- Confrontation on Spruce St. is one example, in which a young couple is seen arguing - maybe over a parking spot, maybe having a lovers' quarrel, maybe even sharing a joke.
- Gossip causes quarrel and tears apart relationships, families, even entire communities.
- I have in mind the escalation of violent quarrels and feuds, particularly in a tribal culture.
- All the misunderstandings and quarrels of the past had been sorted out.
- Best friends since secondary school, Jeff and Nick had their fair share of arguments and quarrels in their six years of friendship, but always managed to patch things up in a matter of time.
- The injury he had done was not the result of sudden heat of blood or quarrel, but of a deliberate determination to commit violence, for the purpose of preventing others working for the wages they chose to work for.
- Tensions were also high between soldiers from Italian 1st Regiment and those from France, with arguments and quarrels among the soldiers leading to duels.
- Pam's recipe for a long and happy marriage is a lot of give and take, and always making up any arguments or quarrels before going to bed.
- Actually, the same principle used to solve domestic quarrels can be applied to achieve world peace.
- You are entering a challenging time of quarrels and conflict that nevertheless will offer you the chance to put an end to a tricky situation once and for all.
- It was not a particularly serious quarrel and the relationship between the two of you up to that point had been fairly good.
- The office is not a place either for a lover's quarrel, which could be annoying and inappropriate to colleagues.
- It is quite normal that conflicts of interests may sometimes lead to quarrels or even fights.
- Customers often asked the kindly gentleman to help crack their problems, which could be anything from domestic quarrels to housing disputes.
- Meanwhile courtiers had told Cosimo that his mathematician was engaging in disputes that might bring discredit on him, so he advised Galileo to write out his arguments and avoid public quarrels.
- The Baildons were known for legal quarrels, fighting, intimidation and even murder.
- However, it was no playground quarrel between fellow pupils.
Synonyms argument, row, fight, disagreement, difference of opinion, dissension, falling-out - 1.1usually with negative A reason for disagreement with a person, group, or principle.
we have no quarrel with the people of the country, only with the dictator Example sentencesExamples - MacSwan's basic quarrel is with the widely discredited notion of semilingualism that, he argues, is perpetuated in Cummins' theories.
- My only real quarrel is with the chapter on ‘Neurodevelopment and Pharmacological Treatment’ by the aforementioned editors of Pathological Gambling.
- On the contrary, many people who have no quarrel with having liquor served with meals often treat the matter as a non-issue.
- It is not the French people with whom I have any quarrel, but their corporate interpretation and abuse of EU rules does stick in the gullet.
- I have no quarrel with your terminology except that it has connotations of teenage American witches in my mind.
- I find the movie-person's view of the arts much more congenial, whatever quarrels I may have with it.
- I have no quarrel was those who call themselves ‘Traditionalist’ Catholic per se.
- My second quarrel is with Prager's description of the Left as ‘easily offended’.
- Several, in fact, read my blog and with such people I have no quarrel and never have had one.
- If ‘just’ means ‘generating more revenues for government’, then no quarrel there.
- She shares her own student quarrels with New Criticism, describes how she supplements her use of it with psychology and history, and laments its waning relevance.
- That war was not the quarrel of the indigenous people, yet we conscripted them to fight it.
- One would have no quarrel in taking into account the factor of saving the prosecutrix the ordeal of giving evidence.
- And I have absolutely no quarrel whatsoever with how well, Steve, you performed your duties.
- I have no quarrels with the broad thrust of the ambitions laid out in the smart, successful Scotland strategy.
- Consider this: the samples were tested at Metrowater's laboratory and there should thus be no quarrel about figures!
- As for D' Souza's defense of capitalism, he'll get no quarrel from me, although it's astonishing how little these arguments change over the years.
- Most of this Indian section, which like the rest of the book rides on a great deal of research, is smoothly convincing; we sanction it without quarrel as the prelude to the real event, the shipwreck.
- They will get no quarrel from me about the utterly tacky impropriety of these guys acting as the messengers for such a call.
- That's one of my chief quarrels with that form of Christianity.
verb [no object]1Have a heated argument or disagreement. stop quarreling with your sister Example sentencesExamples - She and Winston quarreled frequently about money during the lean years after Lord Randolph's death.
- At a Vanity Fair photo session, the rivalry between the women spilled into outright hostility when they quarrelled about who should stand where in a group shot.
- The two have quarreled through the media since then, each with differing opinions of the fight.
- After the enemies were vanquished, however, the victors quarreled and their fundamental disagreements emerged.
- Now, husband and wife are quarrelling about more mundane matters.
- There was, consequently, little communication to be had between the two of us, but I learned my fair share of slang and swear words, and I also learned to quarrel in a foreign language.
- We've got differences of opinions but we've never quarrelled.
- We should not quarrel over external differences.
- They bicker and quarrel, yet clearly love each other.
- Initially, the cultural differences between the two causes them to quarrel, but as they set farther into the desert, the film becomes one of mutual self-discovery.
- However, while the women bickered and quarreled, their herds escaped.
- Police said the couple had quarrelled earlier in the evening.
- When her husband took drugs, he became a completely different person who would quarrel over trivia, and even simple things like not having orange juice in the refrigerator can lead to big fights.
- It was Salih who had read Founding Brothers and who reminded the American journalist that even the Founding Fathers had quarreled among themselves, argued, and nurtured grudges.
- While neither side disputed the facts with respect to integration, they quarrelled over differing interpretations of the consequences.
- Of course, lovers never had it easy: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet paid with their lives only because their families quarrelled.
- He doubts the ship's capacity to reach Europe, quarrels with his captain and asks to be left on the next island where there is water.
- Mr Babbage and Mr Clement had a big disagreement and quarrelled over money.
- They accuse and defend, bicker and quarrel, and cannot seem to talk about their real feelings or listen to each other.
- On various occasions during the trip Tim and Chris quarrelled, but Tim assured Trevor in the long run it made their friendship stronger.
Synonyms argue, have a fight, have a row, row, fight, disagree, fail to agree, differ, be at odds, have a misunderstanding, be at variance, fall out - 1.1quarrel with Take exception to or disagree with (something)
some people quarrel with this approach Example sentencesExamples - Till date, no one has quarrelled with the fee structure - not even the government.
- But rather than quarreling with what he says, I will present my own view and leave it to readers to decide whether the differences are subtle or substantial.
- It's a word - I'm quarrelling not with you, obviously, I'm quarrelling with the culture, which is one of the things I like to do.
- ‘I don't think it would be fair and honourable to start quarreling with the results,’ she said.
- He was an effective president anyway and I don't quarrel with his legacy.
- But I am not quarreling with the fact that the reviewer doesn't like the book - he's perfectly free not to - or even with the idea that if there were some sort of objective, platonic ideal of a best books list, Tolkien would not be on it.
- But at the same time, he quarrels with the logic that produced that strategy and puts a set of onerous conditions in the way of its execution.
- That this concept is true is just so blazingly obvious that I can't imagine anybody quarrelling with it.
- It's interesting to hear you say all of that, because no one quarrels with the fact that Bono does his homework and that his heart is in the right place.
- We believe in the system of justice, and I've been prosecutor for 37 years, and 37 years, I have never quarreled with a jury's verdict and I'm not going to start today.
- I guess Taheri wouldn't quarrel with that, as far as it goes.
- The Ciceronian Review also quarrels with the rotunda analogy, and asserts ‘the evidence suggests that the Democrats did not know the files were open.’
- He may have been a tyrant but the world still quarrels with the manner and mode in which he was ousted from power by the powerful nations who on paper believe in democracy and the rule of law.
- Muldoon's ambition was always palpable, but Johansson quarrels with the common view that he simply used power in the service of his own ambitions.
- Staff have suggested 17 different alternatives, on which the public will be asked to give opinions, providing no one quarrels with the magic number of four, which is what council has decided we will have.
Synonyms find fault with, fault, criticize, argue against, argue with, object to, be hostile to, censure, condemn, be against, be anti, oppose, be in opposition to, take exception to, attack, take issue with, find lacking, pick holes in, impugn, contradict, dispute, rebut, complain about, cavil at, carp at
Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘reason for disagreement with a person’): from Old French querele, from Latin querel(l)a ‘complaint’, from queri ‘complain’. noun 1historical A short, heavy, square-headed arrow or bolt used in a crossbow or arbalest. Example sentencesExamples - A box of quarrels for the crossbow that hung from his saddle adorned his belt, and the usual broadsword rode in its scabbard on his left side.
- A few Elven archers fell, pierced by the poisoned crossbow quarrels (arrows).
- I ducked as a crossbow quarrel clattered against stone near my head.
- Many simply fell over others who'd gone down in front of them, but at such short range a single quarrel could drive clean through two or even three men, and they wreaked terrible havoc.
2A small, diamond-shaped pane of glass as used in lattice windows. 3Northern English A square floor tile.
Origin Middle English: from Old French, based on late Latin quadrus ‘square’. |