Quarreling

Quarreling is a disagreement between people, analtercation in words. When a person makes no effort to beagreeable, contradicts what people say, and gives occasion forbickering, 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 toincrease pleasure. Yet sometimes flattery, by reason of the motivebehind it, is worse than quarreling.