verb. Present participle of argue.

noun. a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement

"After standing in front of Boston Harbor, pledging to be "the environmental president" and promising to "confront the greenhouse effect with the White House effect," President Bush spent the first two years of his term arguing that no action on global warming was necessary or advisable until the completion of a major international scientific study of the problem then under way."

conflict  difference  difference of opinion  dispute  

argle-bargle  argy-bargy  fight  firestorm  polemic  

argue