BICKERED Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

bickered

verb

past tense of bicker

as in quarreled

to express different opinions about something often angrily if you two don't stop bickering about where to go to eat, we're not going out at all!

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Recent Examples of bickered The two of them together, just 17 months apart, shared playlists, bickered over where to stop during Apple CarPlay calls, pulled up beside me and faded away with silly faces, encapsulating 20 years of my life in my rearview mirror. — Robert Duffer, AJC.com, 2 Oct. 2026 King bickered with fans on social media. — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026 But Tilly and Gershon playfully bickered onstage as the former remembered things slightly differently, with Tilly saying the problem had more to do with a shot of her hand on Gershon's crotch that was deemed too realistic. — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 8 June 2026 The video went viral, and the two eventually bickered about it on social media later Sunday night. — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026 The pair have famously bickered over the past 20 years. — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2026 Pointing to elk heads mounted on the wall, the two jokingly bickered over who had bowhunted which. — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026 Jokic and Oklahoma City’s players had bothered each other and bickered all night. — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2026 The actors jokingly bickered about their history with the ceremony, with Cheadle remarking that Clooney hadn’t won since 2026 winner Timothée Chalamet was 3 years old. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 11 Jan. 2026

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Between these endpoints of hate and love came an hour-long C-SPAN broadcast, on November 30, 1993, in which the men quarrelled, teased, and fielded calls.

— Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
In Krisevich’s case, Konovalova repeatedly quarreled with the artist and his wife until the couple ultimately escaped Russia in December 2025.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of quarreled

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Some economists argued that government attempts to intervene in the economy were doomed to fail.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
Among the clues supporting an asteroid origin are mineral and chemical signatures identified in material collected from the region that researchers have argued are consistent with a stony or carbonaceous asteroid.

— Micah Hanks, Space.com, 12 Oct. 2026

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The dispute deepens a rift between the two countries whose armies fought together against the TPLF during the 2020-2022 war.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
For three years, Bola Tinubu has fought to keep old FBI records tied to a 1990s Chicago drug probe about him sealed, hiring US lawyers to support the Justice Department in the fight.

— Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of fought

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Reputational risks Trump’s regulators are handing ⁠Wall Street banks major capital relief and have already clashed with Democrats when defending their policies during congressional hearings.

— Reuters, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2026
Prosecutors and defense attorneys have clashed over whether DNA evidence revealed the killer or an unreliable investigation where key physical evidence vanished.

— Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of clashed

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The city and a group of taxpayers for years squabbled in court over whether the government had the right to enter into a contract with the Friends, which ultimately disbanded before the zoo opened in Griffith Park in 1966.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
The countries have also squabbled over Pretoria’s affirmative action policies and a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.

— Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 18 June 2026

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