The word "bickering" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which two people are arguing in an annoying manner. For example: "The couple spent their evening bickering about who was to blame for the mess in the kitchen."
"Where are the parliamentarians who are bickering back in Baghdad?
A single example, plucked at random from a lifetime's supply: years ago, after I'd been bickering with a friend who was visiting my flat in London, she fell silent for several minutes and then, pointing to my wooden floors, observed, "You know that floor's laminate, don't you?" (It was laminate. I'd been lying to myself for years that it was pine).
And if there are going to be a million new paths to sustainability for a million different artists, we'd best stop bickering amongst ourselves about the validity of each and every path these artists are stumbling down – or at least step out of the way if we can't lend a hand.
Public bickering between club and coach has boiled over in the past week but the pot's been on the stove since mid-2014, the point at which Carlton might have made motions towards extending Malthouse's initial three-year contract beyond this 2015 season.
Since elections last year there have been months of bickering over the cabinet's composition.
Having signed a peace deal under American auspices in September, the two sides are now bickering over its implementation.
Yet, judging by the bickering over how to handle Cyprus's bust banks and help its cash-strapped government, the rescue plan that looks likely to emerge in the coming weeks will be full of fudged numbers and will fail to solve Cyprus's problems.
KMT voters alienated by bickering between the two parties over relations with China may be attracted by third-force parties' emphasis on domestic reforms.The DPP has reason to worry, too.
Mr Trittin is reduced to bickering about operational details (power lines and so forth) rather than attacking Mrs Merkel head-on.This is part of a pattern that has been called Merkelvellianism.
It will be closely watched to the north, in Germany, where another grand coalition is bickering and the Social Democrats are also in disarray.The Austrian government's collapse owes much to the failings of Alfred Gusenbauer, the Social Democrats' leader.
The CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), are bickering.
