squabblers

• Such people also tend to be squabblers over unimportant matters, not unlike the children they teach. —  nourishing obscurity
• "Two squabblers rolling in the snow -- two staff officers brawling before a disheartened army! —  The Long Roll
• Our enemies may call us heretics, unbelievers, rebellious, political squabblers. —  Sermons for the Times
• Turton appears the most difficult to settle; but if there is a will there will be a way, and it is easy enough to imagine the sort of civil, complimentary assurances from one to the other, that though there had been a great misunderstanding, it was no doubt unintentional, and all that sort of palaver which is so familiar to old stagers and parliamentary squabblers. —  The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3)
• At the head of the Pui was a "prince" surrounded by twelve "compaignouns," elected by the brotherhood, whose mission included the duty of pacifying the squabblers. —  A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance

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