(n.) Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mitchell was forced to quit his cabinet post as chief whip over claims he called officers "plebs" during an altercation in Downing Street, which he denies.
(2) They were there for an hour and there was definitely no 'altercation' as this person is making out.
(3) The Ukip leadership contender Steven Woolfe has been discharged from hospital after an altercation with a fellow MEP.
(4) Costa was sent off with six minutes remaining in his side’s 2-0 FA Cup defeat on Saturday after an altercation with Gareth Barry.
(5) Fatal traumatic thrombosis of the left internal carotid artery occurred in a 38-year-old man following minor blunt cervical trauma during an altercation.
(6) On the leaks to the media of the original altercation, which was passed to the Sun, and of an email describing what happened, which has become known as the official log, which was given to the Daily Telegraph, she said that because there was no evidence of payment a jury was likely to decide that it was in the public interest for the events at the Downing Street gate to be made public.
(7) A white man and an African American woman got into a brief altercation over politics, and officers loaded a handful of protesters into an NYPD van, placing their belongings into plastic bags one by one.
(8) Willing to send himself up for advertising campaigns but taking his art extremely seriously, Cantona has at times been repulsed by the media (most obviously in his post-Selhurst Park suspension phase but also in a more recent altercation with a paparazzo in north London) but also used it to his advantage.
(9) Madison’s police chief, Mike Koval, said at a press conference that an officer shot a 19-year-old, who he said was responsible for a recent battery, during an altercation.
(10) But police apparently did not even tape off the area around the altercation – a basic requirement to secure a crime scene and gather forensic evidence.
(11) One man who tried to stop the altercation was also punched.
(12) The incident was not the only altercation at the Trump campaign event on Saturday.
(13) Eric Holder , the US attorney general, said at a press conference in Washington: “Michael Brown’s death, though a tragedy, did not involve prosecutable conduct on the part of officer Wilson.” The decision ended the second half of a politically-charged investigation into Wilson’s shooting of Brown on 9 August following an altercation in a residential side-street.
(14) Hours earlier, Ulivarri’s son, Luís Carlos, 23, had been shot in a bar, and then dragged into the night after an altercation with a group of men presumed to be members of a local drug cartel.
(15) Many street disputes are not gang or even clique related, but the climate of violence created by the gangs, with their ready access to arms, means that a Hobbesian, kill-or-be-killed mentality can afflict even the most minor altercations.
(16) The polarisation of the club’s stands into separate areas that are almost all white and stands that are ethnically mixed proved a backdrop for violent race altercations between the club’s own fans.
(17) The meeting was called ostensibly to clear the air after revelations about an altercation Mitchell had had with Metropolitan police officers in Downing Street, when he was the government's chief whip.
(18) The altercation in Downing Street on 19 September last year took place after two police officers on duty refused to let him ride his bicycle through the gates.
(19) Alan Pardew denied head-butting Hull's David Meyler in a touchline altercation but conceded he would be "stupid" not to expect the Football Association to come down hard on him in the coming days.
(20) The officer chased the man, an altercation ensued and the man fired at the officer, the police chief said.
Scuffle
Definition:
(v. i.) To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.
(v. i.) Hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle confusedly or at haphazard.
(n.) A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters.
(n.) Hence, a confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for superiority; a fight.
(n.) A child's pinafore or bib.
(n.) A garden hoe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The protesters were confronted by a much larger group of pro-Kremlin activists, which led to scuffles.
(2) When the owners of Manchester City finally managed to persuade Pep Guardiola to oversee the next stage of their masterplan it is fair to say they probably did not expect to be approaching Christmas scuffling with a team of Watford’s limitations for their first league win at home in almost three months.
(3) The trials of those arrested over the scuffles on 6 May 2012 have become known as the Bolotnaya affair, after the square in which the clashes took place.
(4) Heather Titley said she saw Cameron grab the collar of Noye's shirt and scuffle with him at the Swanley interchange of the M25.
(5) One BNP supporter who was injured in a scuffle said: "I've put my best suit on today and come out for a peaceful demonstration and this is what's happened.
(6) Passengers scuffled with a man suspected of leaving the bag before the blast went off but failed to detain him.
(7) A minor scuffle erupts and four white shirts immediately converge on the referee and after a minor argument both players are booked.
(8) Minor scuffles were reported, but the ranks of riot police mostly looked on as largely peaceful and white-collar crowd - variously estimated at 10,000 to 70,000 - assembled without a permit in People's Square.
(9) Mostly, I thought about being at Barack Obama’s inauguration ; not at the ceremony itself, but the back of the crowd approximately three miles away, in frigid DC weather and surrounded by thousands of other scuffling, freezing, depressed-looking people, trying to squeeze a sense of occasion from what felt like being at the back of a demo.
(10) "Mubarak is the solution," chanted the crowd, some of whom also briefly scuffled with the supporters of people killed during the 2011 uprising.
(11) Scuffles break out and four protesters are arrested, bundled off to the station in the same tuk-tuks they arrived in.
(12) Surveillance video taken from a Ukrainian airport shows Klymenko and the country's chief prosecutor scuffling with guards who try to detain them and overturning a metal detector gate as they try to reach their plane.
(13) Chad's Hissène Habré removed from Senegal court as scuffle breaks out Read more Habré had refused legal representation, saying he did not recognise the court’s jurisdiction, and vowed not to cooperate with the trial.
(14) More pressure from LA, a scuffle behind the net and Dominic Williams cross-checks King and he will go to the box.
(15) Fifteen people were arrested a day after the results when scuffles broke out between police and protesters outside Downing Street.
(16) The voice of the survivors is being ignored, the concerns of the people and many clergy in Chile are being ignored, and the safety of children in this diocese is being left in the hands of a bishop about whom there are grave concerns for his commitment to child protection.” Barros was installed as bishop of the southern Chilean diocese of Osorno last weekend amid unprecedented opposition, and scuffles inside the cathedral by protesters who say he is unfit to lead.
(17) According to the weekly magazine Friday, the scuffle took place in the early hours of 16 January, when the wrestler should have been preparing for his bout later the same day.
(18) eKathimerini.com reports that "a few dozen pensioners" demanded a meeting with health minister Andreas Lykourentzos, and briefly scuffled with police.
(19) There were scuffles in Cambridge as crowds attempted to storm the university's Senate House.
(20) Over the past few years, the two teams have developed a bit of a dislike for each other stemming from a preseason game that was called early after a tackle by former KC midfielder Roger Espinoza led to a scuffle between the two teams.