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Meanings of pettifog in English
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Examples for "squabble"
Examples for "squabble"
1
The politicians just shout and squabble and all of Europe knows it.
2
Cross-border banks may prove harder to resolve if authorities squabble over losses.
3
Later we may squabble, just the way I do with Walt now.
4
Now divine attention has become a resource that they must squabble for.
5
Once they are in there they can talk and squabble for hours.
1
He was right, of course, and there was no time to quibble.
2
You're in no position to talk of rights or quibble about titles.
3
There was barely a quibble about the charges during the information morning.
4
The woman was too downright in her honesty to quibble or fence.
5
But it is needless to quibble at a definition of the term.
1
Before we can bicker any further, the sheriff walks into the courtroom.
2
He could not bear to hear his parents bicker any longer.
3
They can bicker and brawl to their hearts' content, it makes no difference.
4
It is never good news when two of the world's biggest economies bicker.
5
The current suspects get to bicker in a stylish basement with insulated walls.
1
It's possible that one outstanding niggle may resurface; if so, avoid overreacting.
2
He felt a niggle of worry every time he thought of her.
3
I remembered another niggle-odeon line from an earlier Spithill interview I did.
4
Leinster senior coach Stuart Lancaster said: Johnny has a lower-leg niggle.
5
However, one small niggle has been thrown up by the event.
1
His wrath at their babble and petty brabble doubted that they did.
2
There will be a great brabble about it.'
3
Other whites take part in our brabbles, while temper holds out, with a certain schoolboy entertainment.
4
All their debates were pacified by him; he put an end to their brabbling suits at law and wrangling differences.
5
He had hailed even the Treaty of Utrecht with welcome, in hopes it might at least end these Northern brabbles.
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