Meaning of Wrangle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; an altercation.
   countable
2. Angry disputation; noisy quarrelling.
   uncountable
3. A contentious argument or response.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
4. A controversy.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“For in that you would your awardship shuld take none effect, you shew your selfe nothing inclinable to the redresse of your brothers vnright dealinge wyth an honeste poore man, which hath bene redye at your request to doo you pleasure with his things, or els he had neuer come into this wrāgle for his own goods with your brother.”

“This vvould of Neceſſity, breed an infinite Number of Brangles and litigious Suits in the Spiritual Courts, and put the vvretched Paſtor at perpetual Variance vvith his vvhole Pariſh.”

“For many people this is an astonishing moment of hope, a moment they thought would never come. And there are many of course who feel a sense of anxiety and loss. And then of course there is a third group – perhaps the biggest – who had started to worry that the whole political wrangle would never come to an end. I understand all those feelings and our job as the government – my job – is to bring this country together now and take us forward.”

“Wrangle and bloodshed followed thence.”

“From this dialogue the assembly fell to wrangle, and broke up quarrelling.”

“None can hate / So much as I any kind of wrangle; / And yet, such is my folly, or my fate, / I always knock my head against some angle / About the present, past, or future state: […]”

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