Usually means: Verbal conflict, often public, heated.
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  1. war of words: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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  4. war of words: Wiktionary
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▸ noun:  (idiomatic) A heated exchange of threatening or inflammatory statements.

Similar:
fray, pitched battle, altercation, flame war, polemic, insultathon, controversy, firestorm, flyting, battle royal, more...

Phrases:
a war of words, more...

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Similar:
fray, pitched battle, altercation, flame war, polemic, insultathon, controversy, firestorm, flyting, battle royal, more...

Phrases:
a war of words, more...



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