shouting match

noun

1. a loud, often abusive quarrel or argument.

Example Sentences

Rather, she’d stomped off the Bears’ practice pool deck after a shouting match with Stovall, days after they had returned together from a national invitational meet in Orlando.

From Salon

It was the kind of shouting match among private citizens, at the height of tensions over the 2020 election, that might have happened in any mixed political community in America.

From New York Times

"Am I correct that you hate President Trump?" asked Susan Necheles in a heated cross-examination in New York that at points resembled a shouting match.

From BBC

When Cohen testified, he got into a brief shouting match with one of Mr Trump's attorneys after she repeatedly called his credibility into doubt.

From BBC

At the shout of “action,” two actors, costumed in black blazers and sunglasses, erupted into a spirited shouting match, gesticulating wildly as one demanded that the other convince his daughter to marry him.

From New York Times

Related Words

• controversy
• dispute
• quarrel
• squabble
• trouble