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Meanings of pettifogger in English

Catalan
sofista

A disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections.

sofista
Catalan
ensarronador

A person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods.

ensarronador
Usage of pettifogger in English
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You seem to think you are talking to some other pettifogger.
The Virginians
2
He perhaps mistakes me for what you call a-a pettifogger, is it not?
A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico Today
3
Bringing John D. Rockefeller's own personal pettifogger with him too.
Serena
4
Stephen Hawk, the ex-district attorney: boomer, pettifogger, promoter- achartermember of the Gaston wolf-pack
The Grafters
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The tetrarch sank to rise a pettifogger, a spendthrift, ruined by his own follies.
The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
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He was a pettifogger; their (the Smiths') cat-paw to do their dirty work.
The Story of the Mormons, from the Date of Their Origin to the Y...
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He had none of the arts of the pettifogger.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
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But mark the superiority of British law, and see how the black pettifogger was defeated.
George Cruikshank
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Are you, sir, to be bothered by this pettifogger?
Sevenoaks: A Story of Today
10
The pettifogger must give place to the jurist.
The Call of the Twentieth Century, an Address to Young Men
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Uncle Edmund was a farmer and a pettifogger.
Our Friend John Burroughs
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To the young lady of to-day, belike, she will seem accordingly ridiculous-seempoor-spirited, and a pettifogger.
Yet Again
13
A curse upon every pettifogger in the world!
Debts of Honor
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Why, listen to this fellow Bold, and that other low pettifogger, Finney;-andget up this petition too.
The Warden
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You wouldn't want to be a pettifogger.
A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy
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A pettifogger- amiserablelow-born, low-bred, Liverpool pettifogger!
The Living Link: A Novel
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