Words similar to spats

Example sentences for: spats

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I've been involved in a few spats with the Motley Fools over the years, writing stories that I thought were models of judicious balance, only to have all manner of insult hurled upon me, so I guess I'm particularly sensitized to the food-fight aspect of the Internet.
The most brutal internecine spats took place in New York City in the 1930s.
I hadn't thought about The New New Thing in those terms, since it seemed to me that even though Clark had spats with various people--and even though he looked at money people, in particular, as vermin--all of them, even the vermin, were his co-conspirators.
His nomination had been held up for 14 months, first on ethics questions and then because of spats between the GOP and the White House.
Matthau had on his Einstein clothes (floppy brown wide-wale corduroy pants, brown suspenders, a gray striped cotton-short-sleeved shirt, Rockport shoes) and his Einstein makeup ...Saks was costumed in a Panama hat and cream-colored jacket and pants; Jacobi in cap, gloves, spats, and a too tight vest over a big belly: Maher in a white-and-black-checked coat, tweedy pants, and round-rimmed glasses.