wrangling (n.)
- altercation
- apologetics
- apologia
- apology
- argument
- argumentation
- belligerent
- bicker
- bickering
- casuistry
- combat
- conflict
- contention
- contentiousness
- contest
- contestation
- controversy
- debate
- defense
- disputation
- dispute
- enmity
- eristic
- fighting
- hassle
- hostility
- hubbub
- litigation
- logomachy
- partisan
- polemic
- polemics
- quarrel
- quarrelsomeness
- rhubarb
- set-to
- strife
- struggle
- war
- warfare
- words
Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter,—some of them in hell.