Argument
Argument noun - An often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions.
Usage example: the couple's arguments were often loud enough to be heard all over the neighborhood
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Synonyms for Argument
Spat is a synonym for argument in conflict topic. In some cases you can use "Spat" instead a noun "Argument", when it comes to topics like tiff, verbal fight. informal substitute
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Both words in one sentence
- After his argument with the Sat-Nav turns into a lover's spat, Ben reveals he's cheating on it with someone the Sat-Nav identifies as her sister: a road atlas.
Source: Sibling Triangle -
And England gets it played straight in a certain drama CD when France calls an Anglo-American argument everyone was eavesdropping on a "lover's spat" which he of course denies.
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And a tabloid snapshot of him and his girlfriend's relationship-ending argument, as well as the press snapping photos of his and Marisa's spat seems very reminiscent of a fight Kennedy and then-fiancee Carolyn Bessette had in New York's Washington Square Park.
Source: Film / Maid in Manhattan
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