What's the difference between squabbled and squabbler?
Squabbled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Squabble
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.
Squabbler
Definition:
(n.) One who squabbles; a contentious person; a brawler.