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Definition of haggle:

  • (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining)
  • (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.);

Sentence Examples:

Fruit and vegetables of all descriptions in season are sold amid the most good-humored haggling.

Of a solemn peace conference, with haggling over terms, parchment, and seal, we have no need.

A little lower down some Pariahs are haggling over less polite portions of the goat's economy.

Tom, however, stuck to his original price, though three or four minutes were lost in haggling.

After a little haggling, Greenleaf produced forty dollars, which Herbert pocketed, with much satisfaction.

The pawnbroker advances not more than a twentieth part of their value, and haggles over that.

After the haggling, my gentleman climbed into the boat by a little rope-ladder at the stern.

When, after some haggling and unnecessary delay, the motors were started again, Clay looked very sober.

This was voted in rapid manner; but again, in the detail of executing, it was liable to haggles.

He goes to the market, and secures one after an immense amount of haggling and carries it home.

We're as good as any other traders then; maybe better, because we don't haggle so over a bargain.

We may haggle like peasants, and remember that their first offer is not necessarily their last.

He had forgotten his daughter; so after more haggling the trader agreed to advance her ten skins.

This means nothing whatever, and is merely the introduction to the haggling which is sure to follow.

I cannot even haggle over a bargain properly, people can read from my face what I have to give.

You know that my Indians are beginning to haggle over the fees and to flash schedules on me!

They haggled a good deal over the price, owing to Maggie's obstinate attempts to ruin her own market.

Then do they haggle over the blood-money, for the dead was a strong man, leaving many sons.

Nelson had no time and no disposition to haggle over a bargain, and no man could better appreciate value.

Not a fellow who loves you for yourselves and who would bring you a fortune without haggling!

Then you haggle and haggle, and after a while the medium is reached and the bargain closed.

Rubin, the merry fellow, applied for the situation, and after considerable haggling they agreed upon a price.

They sometimes haggled over the interpretation of the terms "near" and "conveniently" as found in the law.

We haggled for a few minutes and then a solution of the distracting problem occurred to the officer.

There are mediators, who bargain and haggle, up and down, till at last they come to an agreement.

Let the Potter take these, and in return Change us his field, o'er which we long have haggled.

I thought royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood when experiments are in the question.

Ralph haggled over the price of each article, in a way which would have done honor to his appearance.

The lover who has been free-handed may turn into the husband who haggles over his hotel bills.

However, he haggled, and they appear to have thought him of consequence enough to bribe him high to remain.

When I purchased my provisions I had the courage to haggle, and the market-women treated me as an equal.

And if the buyer haggled, he could get the portrait of the great Emperor for almost nothing.

I went to their camp, leading my horse, and after much haggling, I came home with two horses.

One thinks that perhaps this early training in the art of haggling may not be good for her.

A moment later she was haggling with me about terms, for such is the habit of these people.

Most women would have taken three weeks to decide, coming back to haggle at least a dozen times.

He did not, however, haggle over the prices of them, and in this very point benefited many persons.

If she needed money in order to make her escape, he would give it to her without any haggling whatever.

There, on every side, sharp-faced and shrill-voiced dealers haggle with timid customers over garments more or less decayed.

And after much haggling on both sides, the price was fixed at four thousand four hundred and fifty.

And thus they haggle and haggle, just as though they were trading horses, until finally it is fixed.

A man stepped forward and purchased the precious vial, not, however, without some sharp haggling over its price.

For several hours, however, there was considerable haggling over the exact price we were to pay for it.

Rich people don't haggle over a few extra pounds if they know that they're not being imposed upon.

"If you ever feel disposed to part with him," the inspector hinted, "I will not haggle about his price."

The miller offered nine, and the glazier, without further haggling, took the money and went his way.

Were they haggling, as robbers have been known to do after successful operations in plundering, over the division of the spoils?

Morgan the trader did not haggle over the pearls, but gave me at once what he judged a fair price.

Well, if he wants to sell his old ranch, he'd be foolish to haggle over a little thing like terms.

The Russian, on his side, saw no more than an unclean old man haggling over a dirty piece of paper.

There was no haggling over exchanges or ransoms, though no doubt many of the ransoms were at a high figure.

After long bargaining and haggling he finally agreed to give her eighty-five dollars and, worn out, the girl accepted.

While they were all secretly haggling over the terms of the bargain, the Prince of Orange discovered the intrigue.

He did not perceive the reasons or the consequences of it, and this was what induced him to haggle.

In a country where time is of no value everybody who has anything to sell expects to haggle about the price.

"It's rather much to pay for a freak of this sort, but we won't haggle over a pound or two."

A great deal of haggling takes place in transactions at these little establishments, and I occasionally witnessed some amusing scenes.

"As to the price, if you can arrange the thing as I want it done, I'll not haggle over terms."

It had of necessity become a habit with him to haggle and then to stand firm upon the bargain made.

The gentleman, no doubt, will not haggle over it, he will buy a piece of ground outright for a grave.

I did not haggle over it, though I am perfectly certain I could have got what I wanted for less.

After haggling a moment over the bill they paid it and walked out, to the apparent joy of the clerk.

Give us but a prince capable of governing, and you shall see whether we will haggle about the conditions of power!

We act instantly as one people in war, we haggle and hesitate about the most moderate sacrifices to secure an advance in peace.

After much haggling it was arranged that a little cart and horse should take him to the desired spot.

He had never thought of haggling; they should have what they wanted, only let them get done with it.

Now, the gas is precious; but we must not haggle over it when the life of a fellow-creature is at stake.

Stewart was probably the first to abolish this practice of haggling, and to mark his goods in plain figures.

Without haggling, the man passed the loaf of bread to the sergeant and the latter gave him his tobacco.

"Here is a person who will haggle like a pawnbroker," he thought rapidly, "unless indeed she is a female pawnbroker herself."

In terror of death, cold sweat on his brow, he began to haggle for his life with the desert king.

He advanced and retired, and spun matters out, just in the same way as he had haggled for the cow.

And each in succession was eager to have purchased her and her beauty, though they all haggled about the price.

He kept haggling with me some time, and at last the price was agreed upon, and he gave me the money.

I bathed with him once in the summer, and I saw then that he was haggled with wounds all over.

As he did not haggle about terms, the bargain was speedily concluded, and in a few minutes they put off.

Haggling with those enthusiastic citizens of Breed would be feeding my fool pride at the expense of two old men.

Then ask the governor to pay you two bags of gold, and if he haggles just threaten to call me back.

For some weeks past they had been haggling over a business deal, which, up to that day, had not been settled.

Then the wife of a tanner joined the fraternity, and she haggled over the ten coppers for more than an hour.

A king was to be sacrificed to him, and the man dared to haggle over the full surrender of his heart!

Every vote put was promptly lost, and after an hour's haggling they had got no farther than at the beginning!

He plunged into the mess of paper-work and haggling which somebody has to do before any achievement of consequence can come about.

I was too tired to haggle, so paid him the three broad pieces he wanted, and bid him get me some candles.

The farmer went and returned; but it was not till the third time that he bought a sword without haggling.

When you come to haggle about it, and to be uncertain which should give in, how painful the complications of life become!

The haggling spun itself out to a length which would prove tedious to the reader if the conversation were reported in detail.

Unfortunately, he declined selling, but after long haggling, I secured the place for thirty years at a very low rental.

Here he again sold his cat, and this time he received two hundred dollars for her, and that without any haggling.

Tarzan demanded food of the chief, and after considerable haggling on the part of the monarch succeeded in obtaining a meal.

Yet he haggled over the terms, and by this delay brought about a part of that which he had wished to avoid.

After some time of haggling over the different articles, they finally agreed to furnish all, and preparations were begun in full earnest.

And this one university the Bohemians were able to get in 1882 only after a great deal of political haggling and bargaining.

Customers visited their regular stalls, haggled over goods with vendors, bumped into friends and waved across crowded paths to acquaintances.

I looked at her, and after some haggling, chartered her at a low monthly figure for six months, with right of purchase.

They haggled and pushed and crowded; they wanted it to be less expensive, as well as more blessed, to give than to receive.

During this haggling the whole of December would have slipped away, had it not been for the first day of Christmas.

A party of gaily dressed gallants were haggling with the horse-boys at the sheds; but they did not even look at him.

You've got too much at stake to haggle over a few thousand, when the money has come to you as easily as this has.

I haggled the flesh somewhat and cut through the skin often, my knife-blade being much too small for such work.