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Meanings of pettifog in English
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disputar Usage of pettifog in English
1
It wouldn't do me any good to pettifog in this matter.
2
Lanny, you, with all your intellect-whenyou know the oath as well as I-youpettifog like that!
3
The issues involved are too big and far-reaching for pettifogging methods.
4
The opposition did not propose to waste effort on pettifogging preliminaries.
5
Politics after Auschwitz was not meant to become yet another instance of pettifogging.
6
She gave the impression of vibrating with impatience and cried out, That's pettifogging.
7
If he was an exacting moralist, he was never a narrow or pettifogging one.
8
He is a common-barreter for his pleasure, that takes no money, but pettifogs gratis.
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
You are an idiot yourself, pettifogging lawyer, base man!
13
Why, my dear sir, I have known him as a pettifogging money-lender in India for years.
14
But, unwittingly, I have ennobled, by grand historical comparisons, this prying, pettifogging, Irish-informer of a master-at-arms.
15
Sometimes one has these pettifogging personal vanities.
16
From her memoirs we might gather that Danton was a poverty-stricken, pettifogging lawyer of the basest class.
Frequent collocations
Pettifog through the time