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17 total sentences available.
Mrs. Sudberry […] began to argufy with us, touching our going off the premises, and upon my soul, talked over the thing in such a moving manner, every now and then stopping to sob, that if it had not been doing an injury to Mr. Skain here, I could have found in my heart to have left um.
Source: wiktionary
“But not in argufying over facts,” retorted Trunnell. “No, sink me, when I finds I’m argufying agin the world,—agin facts,—I tries to give in some and let the world get the best o’ the argument […]”
Source: wiktionary
They discussed, you see, they didn’t argufy. What’s the difference? Well, when you start to argufy about something with other people, you don’t want to find out what the best idea is. You want to make them accept your idea.
Source: wiktionary
“Why then you are his mistress, and a kept lady to all intents and purposes; so what signifies argufying the matter; […]”
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Closest matches include dispute, altercate, argue, bandy words, bicker.
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