quarrel
noun
an angry dispute or altercation; a disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations.
quarreller
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a word derived from
quarrel.
Example Sentences
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Of all candidates at a club a known quarreller is more sure of blackballs now than even in the times when such a one provoked duels.
From Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
There are certain principles in quarrelling, however, that the true quarreller ever bears in mind, and which, duly observed, do much to facilitate encounters.
From Certain Personal Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
But once you are set as a quarreller you quarrel and quarrel till you die.
From Certain Personal Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Heaven forbid!" rejoined Christopher; "We do not want this quarreller and roarer.
From Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians by Carl Franz van der Velde
"I am no longer such a quarreller, Boris," he answered.
From Debts of Honor by Arthur B. (Arthur Battishill) Yolland
