Quarreling

Quarreling is a disagreement between people, an altercation in words. When a person makes no effort to be agreeable, contradicts what people say, and gives occasion for bickering, he is quarrelsome. Quarreling is opposed to friendlinessor affability.

Quarreling seems to be a worse evil than flattery, forthe quarrelsome man causes displeasure and the flatterer tries to increase pleasure. Yet sometimes flattery, by reason of the motive behind it, is worse than quarreling.