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101fight — n 1. battle, combat, duel, bout; contention, clash, conflict, struggle, Scot. sprattle, strife; war, warfare, fighting, hostilities; assault, attack, offensive, harassment, assailment; siege, besiegement, beset ment, investment; collision,… …
102impugn — v 1. malign, gibbet, vilify, vituperate, vilipend, run down, defame, denigrate, scandalize, asperse, impute, insinuate, cast aspersions, speak ill of, speak evil of, backbite, Sl. badmouth, Sl. poor mouth; slander, libel, calumniate, traduce,… …
103jangle — v 1. clank, clatter, rattle, jar; clang, clangor, clash, crash, din. 2. wrangle, altercate, quarrel, brawl, broil, feud, be at [s.o. s] throat; bicker, squabble, spat, tiff, have words; conflict, contend, dispute, Rare. discept, disagree; take… …
104pettifog — v 1. quibble, cavil, Inf. nitpick, belabor a point, split hairs, chop logic, trifle, beg the question; bicker, bandy words, moot, sift, Inf. kick around, Sl. hash over; wrangle, altercate, jangle, quarrel, squabble, haggle, Sl. hassle, Scot.… …
105quarrel — n 1. dispute, discord, wrangle, wrangling, bickering, Sl. beef, controversy; contradiction, dissension, variance, difference of opinion; debate, discussion, polemic, logomachy, war of words; contestation, litigation, disputation, argumentation,… …
106row — I n line, file, queue, column, rank, tier; series, range, chain, string, succession, sequence, concatenation, catena; suite, train, retinue, cortege, cavalcade, procession, parade, Fr. defile. II v oar, pull, paddle, canoe, kayak. III n 1.… …
107rowdyism — n 1. ruffianism, hooliganism, hood lumism, blackguardism, vandalism; brutality, barbarity, barbarism, atrociousness, savageness, savagery, viciousness; malevolence, villainy, wrongdoing. 2. boisterousness, crudeness, crudity, rudeness, coarseness …
108spat — n 1. quarrel, disagreement, squabble, tiff, Brit. Dial. fratch; personal conflict, Inf. run in, Inf. hassle, Inf. barney; falling out, rupture, open variance; dispute, wrangle, bickering, controversy, difference of opinion. 2. slap, blow, smack,… …
109squabble — v 1. quarrel, row, altercate, spar, cross swords; argue, debate, dispute, bandy words, have words Inf. pick a crow; disagree, differ, take exception to, contend, contest, make something of it fall out, clash be at odds, be at loggerheads; fight,… …
110struggle — v 1. contend, wrestle, grapple, tussle, scuffle; battle, fight, combat, war, wage war, skirmish; join battle with, set to, engage, encounter; clash, joust, tilt at, duel, cross swords with, fence; spar, brawl, scrap, box, fall to blows; compete,… …
