Definition for Stickle:

• To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.

Synonyms for Stickle:

• v.

  •communication (verb)
  • stickle.
  •demur (verb)
  • hem and haw,
  • vacillate,
  • shy,
  • wait and see,
  • strain,
  • balk,
  • cavil,
  • doubt,
  • fight,
  • disapprove,
  • oppose,
  • pause,
  • combat,
  • refuse,
  • deprecate,
  • waver,
  • resist,
  • protest,
  • stick,
  • take exception,
  • object,
  • challenge,
  • complain,
  • hesitate,
  • pussyfoot,
  • remonstrate.
  •dissent (verb)
  • disaccord,
  • contradict,
  • put up a fight,
  • break with,
  • say nothing doing,
  • say no way,
  • divide,
  • differ,
  • argue,
  • vary,
  • buck,
  • pettifog,
  • say not a chance,
  • put up an argument,
  • fly in the face of,
  • decline,
  • wrangle,
  • discord.
  •recoil (verb)
  • kick,
  • shake,
  • blink,
  • draw back,
  • carom,
  • rebound,
  • dodge,
  • resile,
  • duck,
  • shirk,
  • tremble,
  • blanch,
  • quake,
  • quail,
  • shudder,
  • swerve,
  • wince,
  • flinch,
  • backfire,
  • jerk,
  • withdraw,
  • step back,
  • shrink,
  • spring,
  • reel,
  • start,
  • shy away,
  • cringe,
  • pull back,
  • blench,
  • react,
  • turn away,
  • falter.
  •scruple (verb)
  • stumble,
  • boggle,
  • question,
  • have qualms,
  • gag,
  • be unwilling,
  • be loath,
  • think twice about,
  • worry,
  • be reluctant,
  • fret.
  •shrink away (verb)
  • recoil.

• Other synonyms:

  •disagree
  • dissent,
  • demur.
  •recoil
  • pulling back,
  • pulled back,
  • pulls back,
  • Winced,
  • turned away,
  • turns away,
  • turning away,
  • Flinched.
  •scruple
  • scruples.

Antonyms for Stickle:

• v.

  • demur
    agree, approve, help, believe, commend, accept, support, endorse, go along, consent, sanction, praise, aid, surrender, give in.
  • dissent
    authorize, join, assent, concur, ratify.
  • recoil
    meet, stay, face, remain, steady.
  • scruple
    not care, continue.

Stickle Sentence Examples:

• Her mother taught her carefully to say her prayers, which included petitions for the welfare of Grannie and father and brother Tom, and for a time, with the perfunctoriness of childhood, which attaches more weight to the act than to the meaning of it, she allowed that to pass with a stickle and a slur.

• I should not stickle about terms.

Homophones for Stickle:

• staysail, Sitka Willow, shtikl, scotch gale, stickel, schtikl, stodgily, stagily, satchel, stokehole, set chisel, stoical, schtickl, shtickl, sweet gale, sod's law, sweet cicely, stickily.

Hyponym for Stickle:

• v.

  • communication
    argue, contend, fence, debate.