All 3 Uses of
squabble
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- Sometimes it seemed as though there were a number of people round him; they wanted to take him away somewhere, there was a great deal of squabbling and discussing about him.†
Chpt 2.3 *squabbling = arguing -- typically over unimportant things
- "Your papa as you are well aware I had not the honour of knowing" (someone laughed aloud) "and I do not intend to take part in your everlasting squabbles with Amalia Ivanovna....I have come here to speak of my own affairs...and I want to have a word with your stepdaughter, Sofya... Ivanovna, I think it is?†
Chpt 5.3squabbles = argues -- typically over unimportant things; or instances of such arguments
- If she heard laughter or jeering in the crowd, she would rush at once at the scoffers and begin squabbling with them.†
Chpt 5.5squabbling = arguing -- typically over unimportant things
Definition:
an act or instance of arguing -- typically over unimportant things