brangling

I guess you could say that someone engaged in all this political brangling who is not troubled by integrity or conscience really has an unfair advantage, like an athlete on steroids.

Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary On The Debate: Obama Is "Very Frustrated" 2009

I guess you could say that someone engaged in all this political brangling who is not troubled by integrity or conscience really has an unfair advantage, like an athlete on steroids.

Hillary On The Debate: Obama Is "Very Frustrated" 2009

It was on the way to the Sally Mangy that this brangling had begun, and it ended jest as they were seating themselves.

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

Bloom of Crawford's journal sitting snug with a covey of wags, likely brangling fellows, Dixon jun., scholar of my lady of Mercy's, Vin.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

It was on the way to the Sally Mangy that this brangling had begun, and it ended jest as they were seating themselves.

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Take heed of an idle, talking, or brangling tongue.

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

&c. An honest man will not offer thee injury, probus non vult; if he were a brangling knave,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Crawford’s journal sitting snug with a covey of wags, likely brangling fellows, Dixon jun., scholar of my lady of Mercy’s,

Ulysses 2003