argufy
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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For what skill had I to argufy with a man of such infinite parts?
From The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty by Beck, L. Adams (Lily Adams)
You’d better argufy with ’em, and bring that p’int home to ’em, Mr. Barnes.”
From Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America by Hyrst, H. W. G.
You're the last man I'd have expected to hear argufy for faith without works.
From Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood by MacDonald, George
Now, Barnabas," exclaimed his father, beginning to rasp his fingers to and fro across his great, square, shaven chin, "why argufy?
From The Amateur Gentleman by Farnol, Jeffery
She evinced a similar disposition to argufy with me, which I avoided by either laughing or yielding.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle
Morse argufied from one Oregon border to another and blanketed the state with TV spots.
From Time Magazine Archive
Zur, I have argufied the topic, and it wou'dn't be pratty—zo I can't.
From Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden by Morton, Thomas
He hev mighty nigh argufied me ter death,—'bout sperits, an' witches, an' salvation, an' law, an' craps, an' horse-flesh, an' weather signs.
From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles
De Lord argufied wid him but de crab wouldn' listen, en he say he gwine put hit on.
From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by Pickett, La Salle Corbell
We argufied over him for an hour, and it seemed all to no purpose, he refusing to budge an inch, saying he weighed two hundred and twenty pounds, and was better off in the attic.
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Osbourne, Lloyd
Bullinger and Gualterus “were unwilling to contend with these men like fencing-masters,” tired of their argufying; unable to “withdraw our entire confidence from the Bishops.”
From John Knox and the Reformation by Lang, Andrew
Two things, in particular, I wish my nevy to avoid—namely, argufying in company, and speaking about himself.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
The Jedge didn't mean that; you got him kind of het up with argufying....
From An Alabaster Box by Mulford, Stockton
But there is no use in argufying about it.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton
"I have promised mother," said Bet; "there is no use argufying on that point."
From A Girl of the People by Meade, L. T.
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