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• n  a quarrel about petty points
• v  argue over petty things

• O'Reilly led him through questions on Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq, occasionally bickering with Obama ("You're not going to send ground troops into Pakistan, and you know it!") or .
• The Washington siege was an explosive mixture of gangsterism, revenge, racial hostility and religious bickering elevated, as the participants proclaimed, to the level of a holy .
• I just like thinking of their bickering as having man-love undertones.

• bicker
• spat
• tiff
• squabble
• pettifoggery
• fuss
• quibble
• niggle
• pettifog
• brabble

News & Articles

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• Senate immigration bill supporters push back on border security
  Bickering across a deep divide, supporters of immigration legislation pushed back hard Wednesday against Republican demands for tougher border-security measures before millions living illegally in the country could take the first steps toward U.S. citizenship.
  June 13, 2013 - Denver Post
• Dems, GOP argue about border security
  WASHINGTON – Bickering across a deep divide, supporters of immigration legislation pushed ba ...
  June 13, 2013 - Albuquerque Journal
• Border security at issue in immigration bill
  Bickering across a deep divide, supporters of immigration legislation pushed back hard Wednesday against Republican demands for tougher border security measures before millions living illegally in the ...
  June 12, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Signal
  I am not the first President to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last,Obama said in his address. "Well, the time for bickering is over. The time for games has passed. Now is the season for action."
• Mitt Romney in Guardian Unlimited
  People have been talking about things that Washington has been promising for years but not delivered,Romney told the crowd. "And so, I will go to Washington to stop the bickering, the sniping, the partisanship, the score-settling. I will...
• Al Sharpton in Prince George Citizen
  I just felt like I couldn't leave him,Sharpton said. "This was like my father. And that's why to me I just can't sit in court and watch the bickering, because it's too personal."