stickle
sti kuhl
- v dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points)
- To all of thempro-Nazi, anti-Nazi, pro-French or pro-Leaguethe present seems no time to stickle.
- France, alarmed by the sudden pole vault to power of Adolf Hitler, began to stickle for Japanese observance of the "sanctity of treaties," preparatory to stickling later for .
- Meanwhile in London His Majesty's Government continued to stickle for the oath in a sharp note to the Irish Free State, so sharp that last week neither sender nor receiver .