We are involved in a legal wrangle over payments.
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Wrangle
//ˈɹæŋɡl̩//
Synonyms for "wrangle" (128 found)
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14 entriesTranslations
86 translations across 17 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κολῳός noun (angry dispute; noisy quarrel)
Bulgarian
4 entries- кавга noun (angry disputation; noisy quarrelling)
- караница noun (angry disputation; noisy quarrelling)
- препирня noun (angry dispute; noisy quarrel)
- карам се verb (to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker)
Finnish
4 entries- kiista noun (angry dispute; noisy quarrel)
- kiistely noun (angry disputation; noisy quarrelling)
- riita noun (angry dispute; noisy quarrel)
- riitely noun (angry disputation; noisy quarrelling)
French
2 entries- disputer verb (to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker)
- quereller verb (to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker)
German
4 entries- Rangelei noun (angry disputation; noisy quarrelling)
- Streit noun (angry disputation; noisy quarrelling)
- rangeln verb (to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker)
- streiten verb (to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker)
Hungarian
4 entries- civakodás noun (angry dispute; noisy quarrel)
- veszekedés noun (angry dispute; noisy quarrel)
- összetűzés noun (angry dispute; noisy quarrel)
- civakodik verb (to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker)
Irish
4 entries- caitleáil noun (angry dispute; noisy quarrel)
- callóid noun (angry dispute; noisy quarrel)
- clampar noun (angry dispute; noisy quarrel)
- clismirt noun (angry disputation; noisy quarrelling)
Latin
1 entries- altercor verb (to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker)
Low German
1 entries- wrangeln verb (to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker)
Māori
2 entries- rure verb (to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker)
- taungaungau verb (to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker)
Occitan
2 entries- carpinhar verb (to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker)
- disputar verb (to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker)
Polish
2 entries- kłócić się verb (to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker)
- spierać verb (to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker)
Portuguese
4 entries- briga noun (angry dispute; noisy quarrel)
- disputar noun (angry disputation; noisy quarrelling)
- disputar verb (to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker)
- pastorar verb (to herd (horses or other livestock); to manage or supervise (people))
Romanian
3 entries- ceartă aprinsă noun (angry dispute; noisy quarrel)
- dispută aprinsă verb (to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker)
- păstori verb (to herd (horses or other livestock); to manage or supervise (people))
Russian
4 entries- перебра́нка noun (angry disputation; noisy quarrelling)
- спор noun (angry disputation; noisy quarrelling)
- ссо́ра noun (angry disputation; noisy quarrelling)
- вздо́рить verb (to quarrel angrily and noisily — see also bicker)
Spanish
4 entries- altercado noun (angry dispute; noisy quarrel)
- disputa noun (angry dispute; noisy quarrel)
- gresca noun (angry dispute; noisy quarrel)
- riña noun (angry disputation; noisy quarrelling)
Swedish
4 entries- gräl noun (angry dispute; noisy quarrel)
- käbbel noun (angry dispute; noisy quarrel)
- munhuggande noun (angry dispute; noisy quarrel)
- driva verb (to herd (horses or other livestock); to manage or supervise (people))
Sample sentences
39 total sentences available.
This contract dispute turned into a legal wrangle.
Source: tatoeba (12654445)
[W]e vvrangled out of the King ten quarters of Corne for a copper Kettel, the vvhich the Preſident preceiving him much to affect, valued it at a much greater rate; […]
Source: wiktionary
[H]e has taken in, Sir, the vvhole ſubject,— […] begging, borrovving, and ſtealing, as he vvent along, all that had been vvrote or vvrangled thereupon in the ſchools and porticos of the learned; […]
Source: wiktionary
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