In a dispute or confrontation.

Roget 720: contending etc. v.; together by the ears, at loggerheads.    at war.    at issue.    competitive, rival; belligerent; contentious, combative, bellicose, unpeaceful^†; warlike etc. 722; quarrelsome etc. 901; pugnacious; pugilistic, gladiatorial; palestric^†, palestrical^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 898: hating etc. v.; abhorrent; averse from etc. (disliking) 867; set against.    bitter etc. (acrimonious) 895; implacable etc. (revengeful) 919.    unloved, unbeloved, unlamented, undeplored, unmourned^†, uncared for, unendeared^†, un-valued; disliked etc. 867.    crossed in love, forsaken, rejected, lovelorn, jilted.    obnoxious, hateful, odious, abominable, repulsive, offensive, shocking; disgusting etc. (disagreeable) 830; reprehensible.    invidious, spiteful; malicious etc. 907.    insulting, irritating, provoking.    [Mutual hate] at daggers drawn; not on speaking terms etc. (enmity) 889; at loggerheads.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 713: discordant; disagreeing etc. v.; out of tune, ajar, on bad terms, dissentient etc. 489; unreconciled, unpacified; contentious etc. 720.    quarrelsome, unpacific^†; gladiatorial, controversial, polemic, disputatious; factious; litigious, litigant; pettifogging.    at odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words; up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled.    torn, disunited.    ... meer laten zien