1
He believed in fair play and despised sharp practice and pettifogging tricks.
2
Jack considered him more of a pettifogging bureaucrat than an intelligence officer.
3
We can't help it; we put the pettifogging first and the people second.
4
The issues involved are too big and far-reaching for pettifogging methods.
5
The opposition did not propose to waste effort on pettifogging preliminaries.
6
Politics after Auschwitz was not meant to become yet another instance of pettifogging.
7
She gave the impression of vibrating with impatience and cried out, That's pettifogging.
8
If he was an exacting moralist, he was never a narrow or pettifogging one.
9
Against a parcel of imbeciles who are pettifogging from morning till night in their hovels.
10
The honorable profession of law dwindled into pettifogging tricks.
11
Why do we call them pettifogging and dismiss them?
12
Then what is all your pettifogging about technicalities worth?
13
You are an idiot yourself, pettifogging lawyer, base man!
14
Why, my dear sir, I have known him as a pettifogging money-lender in India for years.
15
To accept lightly the gifts and legacies offered was to lay himself open to expensive pettifogging.
16
But if they are then subjected to literate pettifogging, all this effort is to no avail.