(v. i.) To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle.
(v. t.) To make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss.
(v. t.) To oppose by argument or assertion; to attempt to overthrow; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of; as, to dispute assertions or arguments.
(v. t.) To strive or contend about; to contest.
(v. t.) To struggle against; to resist.
(v. i.) Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.
(v. i.) Contest; struggle; quarrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Various metabolites of etoposide and teniposide have been identified but their detection and quantitation are disputed.
(2) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
(3) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(4) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(5) The cost-cutting shakeup is being overseen by NHS England, but is already sparking a series of local political battles over the future of services, and exposes the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to fresh criticism after his controversial role in the junior doctors dispute.
(6) Buckingham Palace was drawn into the dispute when it was revealed that Pownall had sought advice from the Lord Chamberlain, a key officer in the royal household, on the potential misuse of the portcullis emblem due to it being the property of the Queen.
(7) All have territorial disputes with Beijing over the South China Sea , a route for about $4.5tn (£3.4tn) in trade that the US is concerned China wants to fully control.
(8) Xu, the ABP chairman, disputed any claims of impropriety, and said his company went through a “robust and thorough” tender process.
(9) The calls were organised after the administration unsuccessfully asked FBI officials to dispute the accuracy of stories, the Post said.
(10) Australian Border Force staff involved in a dispute over pay and conditions have been stood down without pay in an attempt to head off industrial action.
(11) Nguyen Van Hai criticised the government for its handling of tensions with China over disputed islands in the South China Sea.
(12) This weekend a new dispute has erupted over government proposals to hive off child protection services to companies such as Serco and G4S ; perhaps the ministers and officials behind those plans should look at the case of Sana when they come to make their final decision on the future of another vulnerable section of the population.
(13) A custody or visitation dispute occurred in 12 (39%) of 31 sexual abuse complaints lodged against a parent.
(14) It is unclear if the steps against Australian advisers have any connection to the Manus dispute.
(15) During a time of ongoing industrial action in response to a continuing position of contractual imposition, there is obvious and significant discontent amongst the junior doctor workforce.” Junior doctors are only willing to support the review after the current industrial dispute is resolved, the statement ends.
(16) The role of the macrophage in destruction of virulent treponemes is disputed.
(17) The Cabinet Office review was presented at the weekend as an exercise largely focused on the Unite union's strategy of leverage , a form of protest outside the homes of senior executives involved in industrial disputes.
(18) Construction of the academy was delayed over a dispute between the Raising Malawi charity and villagers who claimed they were not adequately compensated for land.
(19) However, certain principles should not be disputed, since nowadays there is hardly any doubt as to their validity.
(20) Palmer sought to clarify his statements on Tuesday, and said they were aimed at the company he is currently locked in a dispute with, and not the broader Chinese population.
Squabble
Definition:
(v. i.) To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.
(v. i.) To debate peevishly; to dispute.
(v. t.) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry or are mixed and need careful readjustment; -- said of type that has been set up.
(n.) A scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Thursday the word in Brussels was there would be fresh elections in April, a ballot likely to entrench the divide, deepen the crisis of political accountability and legitimacy, and result in yet further months of government-less squabbling.
(2) But living in modern Britain feels like being one of a family of anxious, squabbling children whose parents have abandoned us to get drunk at the casino.
(3) What we are seeing is the government really squabbling over what is such an important and profound piece of legislation for our country, like kids in a schoolyard.” Shorten told reporters on Sunday the government’s citizenship laws were “rapidly descending into a farce”, and called on it to urgently release the text of the legislation so Labor could scrutinise it.
(4) Precisely how juvenile was, of course, open to yet more squabbling.
(5) My son’s Guyanese-Canadian teacher and the Muslim Milton scholar I went to high school with and the Sikh writer I squabble about Harold Innis with and my Ishmaeli accountant, we can all be good little Torontonians of the middle class, deflecting the differences we have been trained to respect.
(6) There is boardroom squabbling, the workforce is in open revolt and there are no new product lines.
(7) Nor are they exotic Mafia hits like the killing of Castellano; these are low-level whackings, often linked to squabbles over drugs.
(8) At the time they were stressful – battling with traffic, fights over radio stations, squabbles over who was going to sit in the front seat and listening to a muddle of languages together with drama lines and songs to be sung.
(9) "The squabbles will be bitter and vicious if the first salvoes in this war are anything to go by.
(10) Amid squabbles over boundary changes, mansion tax, Europe and the NHS, each of them was up for the fight.
(11) Momentum Hastings seems pleasantly free of the kind of dogmatic, acrimonious squabbles that have recently engulfed the movement at national level.
(12) Likewise, he feels, parenting is too important to fall foul of party political squabbles.
(13) We kids had obviously been squabbling and had been banned from making any noise or, "I'll stop the car and bang your heads together!"
(14) When superpowers and former superpowers squabble, lives are ruined.
(15) Preparatory talks last month in Bangkok ended in acrimonious squabbles .
(16) The same can't be said of our squabbles at the decade's end.
(17) She had lived for a long time in the shadow of her unfaithful husband, and, uninterested in the perennial squabbles of the Chilean left, the coup turned her into a significant political figure in her own right.
(18) A new body is to be elected to do the job, but with arguments raging over the place of Sharia law in that constitution, and with regional leaders squabbling for influence, there is no sign of when those elections will happen.
(19) If the experiment has been a disaster for Greece, it is also a colossal failure for Europe , with the result that at the very apex of leadership the EU nowadays resembles an unhappy assembly of squabbling politicians locked in what could not be called an “ever closer union”.
(20) From the lawn we could see nothing but tree tops and the only interruption to lazy mornings on the terrace was the noise of squabbling langur monkeys and green parrots.